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This patch includes the pin initialization, resource definition and
registration of the platform_devices for the SAM9260 and SAM9261
processors.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Add support for the timer on the Atmel AT91SAM9261 and AT91SAM9260
processors.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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This patch updates the drivers (and other files) which include the
hardware headers. This fixes the breakage introduced in patches 3950/1
and 3951/1 (those patches were getting big).
The AVR32 architecture uses the same serial driver and had its own copy
of at91rm9200_pdc.h. Renamed it to at91_pdc.h
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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This patch adds the initial support for the newer Atmel AT91SAM9261 and
AT91SAM9260 processors. The code is based on, and makes use of, the
existing AT91RM9200 support.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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The external interrupt sources are different on the various AT91
processors. This patch introduces the global 'at91_extern_irq' variable
that contains a bitset of the available external interrupt sources.
The processor reset mechanism also differs on the various AT91
processors. This patch also adds a global 'at91_arch_reset' callback
(from system.h) into the processor-specific code to perform the reset.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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This patch renames the arch/arm/mach-at91rm9200/devices.c file to
at91rm9200_devices.c. The file contains AT91RM9200-specific code, so we
will need separate files for the SAM9 processors.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 3943/1: share declaration of struct pxa2xx_udc_mach_info between multiple platforms
[ARM] Export smp_call_function()
[ARM] Add PM_LEGACY defaults
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Otherwise CPU 0 doesn't show up in sysfs which breaks some software.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6:
[PATCH] x86-64: Use stricter in process stack check for unwinder
[PATCH] i386: Fix compilation with UP genericarch
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix warning in io_apic.c
[PATCH] x86-64: work around gcc4 issue with -Os in Dwarf2 stack unwind
[PATCH] x86_64: Align data segment to PAGE_SIZE boundary
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] Fix Bonito bootup message.
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Even when enabling Bonito IOBC coherence the kernel would actually claim
it was disabling it.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Previously it would check for alignment only, which could break
if the stack pointer was unaligned. Now explicitely check if the
stack pointer is in the stack page of the current process.
Ported from i386.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Commit 2c8c0e6b8d7700a990da8d24eff767f9ca223b96 ("[PATCH] Convert x86-64
to early param") broke the earlyprintk=...,keep feature.
This restores that functionality. Tested on x86_64. Must-have for
v2.6.19, no risk.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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smp_call_function() will be used with the MP/core oprofile support
patch. Export it as _GPL.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Eliminate two warnings:
kernel/power/pm.c:205: warning: 'pm_register' is deprecated (declared at kernel/power/pm.c:64)
kernel/power/pm.c:206: warning: 'pm_send_all' is deprecated (declared at kernel/power/pm.c:180)
by updating defconfig files to contain a sensible PM_LEGACY default.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Reimplement execvp for our purposes - after we call fork() it is fundamentally
unsafe to use the kernel allocator - current is not valid there. So we simply
pass to our modified execvp() a preallocated buffer. This fixes a real bug
and works very well in testing (I've seen indirectly warning messages from the
forked thread - they went on the pipe connected to its stdout and where read
as a number by UML, when calling read_output(). I verified the obtained
number corresponded to "BUG:").
The added use of __cant_sleep() is not a new bug since __cant_sleep() is
already used in the same function - passing an atomicity parameter would be
better but it would require huge change, stating that this function must not
be called in atomic context and can sleep is a better idea (will make sure of
this gradually).
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 3941/1: [Jornada7xx] - Addition to MAINTAINERS
[ARM] 3942/1: ARM: comment: consistent_sync should not be called directly
[ARM] ebsa110: fix warnings generated by asm/arch/io.h
[ARM] 3933/1: Source drivers/ata/Kconfig
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Removing flush_icache_page a while ago broke SB1 which was using an empty
flush_data_cache_page function. This glues things well enough so a more
efficient but also more intrusive solution can be found later.
Signed-Off-By: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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/*
* Note: Drivers should NOT use this function directly, as it will break
* platforms with CONFIG_DMABOUNCE.
* Use the driver DMA support - see dma-mapping.h (dma_sync_*)
*/
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] Fix ucc_geth of_device discovery on mpc832x
[POWERPC] Revert "[POWERPC] Add powerpc get/set_rtc_time interface to new generic rtc class"
[POWERPC] Revert "[POWERPC] Enable generic rtc hook for the MPC8349 mITX"
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mpc832x, as in mpc8360, needs to explicitly find and create the
platform device for ucc_geth in 2.6.19. This code will likely be
readapted to Benh's new of_ methods for 2.6.20.
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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generic rtc class"
This reverts commit 7a69af63e788a324d162201a0b23df41bcf158dd.
As advised by David Brownell:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116387226902131&w=2
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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This reverts commit a8ed4f7ec3aa472134d7de6176f823b2667e450b.
As advised by David Brownell:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116387226902131&w=2
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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o Explicitly align data segment to PAGE_SIZE boundary otherwise depending on
config options and tool chain it might be placed on a non PAGE_SIZE aligned
boundary and vmlinux loaders like kexec fail when they encounter a
PT_LOAD type segment which is not aligned to PAGE_SIZE boundary.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Switch to using irq_handler_t for interrupt function handler pointers.
Change name of m68knommu's irq_hanlder_t data structure so it doesn't
clash with the common type (include/linux/interrupt.h).
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This is to fix compile error of x86-64 memory hotplug without any NUMA
option.
CC arch/x86_64/mm/init.o
arch/x86_64/mm/init.c:501: error: redefinition of 'memory_add_physaddr_to_nid'
include/linux/memory_hotplug.h:71: error: previous definition of 'memory_add_phys
addr_to_nid' was here
arch/x86_64/mm/init.c:509: error: redefinition of 'memory_add_physaddr_to_nid'
arch/x86_64/mm/init.c:501: error: previous definition of 'memory_add_physaddr_to_
nid' was here
I confirmed compile completion with !NUMA, (NUMA & !ACPI_NUMA),
or (NUMA & ACPI_NUMA).
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove two warnings:
drivers/serial/8250_early.c:136: warning: unused variable 'mapsize'
include/linux/io.h:47: warning: passing argument 1 of '__readb' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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ARM doesn't source drivers/Kconfig like most architectures do, so the
newly added drivers/ata is currently not made available on ARM. SATA
is used on some ARM machines, like the Thecus N2100, so we need to
source drivers/ata/Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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When showing the stack backtrace, make sure that we never accept not
only an unchanging frame pointer, but also a frame pointer that moves
back down the stack frame. It must always grow up (toward older stack
frames).
I doubt this has triggered, but a subtly corrupt stack with extremely
unlucky contents could cause us to loop forever on a bogus endless frame
pointer chain.
This review was triggered by much worse problems happening in some of
the other stack unwinding code.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The scheduler on Andreas Friedrich's hyperthreading system stopped
working properly: the scheduler would never move tasks to another CPU!
The lask known working kernel was 2.6.8.
After a couple of attempts to corner the bug, the following smoking gun
was found:
BIOS reported wrong ACPI idfor the processor
CPU#1: set_cpus_allowed(), swapper:1, 3 -> 2
[<c0103bbe>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x34/0x4a
[<c0103ceb>] show_trace+0x2c/0x2e
[<c01045f8>] dump_stack+0x2b/0x2d
[<c0116a77>] set_cpus_allowed+0x52/0xec
[<c0101d86>] cpu_idle_wait+0x2e/0x100
[<c0259c57>] acpi_processor_power_exit+0x45/0x58
[<c0259752>] acpi_processor_remove+0x46/0xea
[<c025c6fb>] acpi_start_single_object+0x47/0x54
[<c025cee5>] acpi_bus_register_driver+0xa4/0xd3
[<c04ab2d7>] acpi_processor_init+0x57/0x77
[<c01004d7>] init+0x146/0x2fd
[<c0103a87>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
a quick look at cpu_idle_wait() shows how broken that code is
on i386: it changes the init task's affinity map but never
restores it ...
and because all userspace tasks get forked by init, they all
inherited that single-CPU affinity mask. x86_64 cloned this
bug too.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andreas Friedrich <andreas.friedrich@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Cc: Wolfgang Erig <Wolfgang.Erig@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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the new dwarf2 unwinder crashes while trying to dump the stack:
Leftover inexact backtrace:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff82800000 RIP:
[<ffffffff8026cf26>] dump_trace+0x35b/0x3d2
PGD 203027 PUD 205027 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [2] PREEMPT SMP
CPU 0
Modules linked in:
Pid: 30, comm: khelper Not tainted 2.6.19-rc6-rt1 #11
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8026cf26>] [<ffffffff8026cf26>] dump_trace+0x35b/0x3d2
RSP: 0000:ffff81003fb9d848 EFLAGS: 00010006
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff805b3520 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffffff827ffff9 R08: ffffffff80aad000 R09: 0000000000000005
R10: ffffffff80aae000 R11: ffffffff8037961b R12: ffff81003fb9d858
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff80598460 R15: ffffffff80ab1fc0
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff806c4200(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: ffffffff82800000 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
this crash happened because it did not sanitize the dwarf2 data it
got, and got an unaligned stack pointer - which happily walked past
the process stack (and eventually reached the end of kernel memory
and pagefaulted there) due to this naive iteration condition:
HANDLE_STACK (((long) stack & (THREAD_SIZE-1)) != 0);
note that i386 is alot more conservative when it comes to trusting
stack pointers:
static inline int valid_stack_ptr(struct thread_info *tinfo, void *p)
{
return p > (void *)tinfo &&
p < (void *)tinfo + THREAD_SIZE - 3;
}
but the x86_64 code did not take this bit of i386 code.
The fix is to align the stack pointer.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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on x86_64, the CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR build fails if used in a
distcc setup that has "CC" defined to "distcc gcc":
gcc: gcc: linker input file unused because linking not done
gcc: gcc: linker input file unused because linking not done
gcc: gcc: linker input file unused because linking not done
this is because the gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh script
has a 2-parameters assumption. Fix this by passing $(CC) as
a single parameter.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Please-Use-Me-More: make randconfig
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Broken by earlier patch by me.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] Remove OP_MAX_COUNTER
[ARM] Remove PM_LEGACY=y from selected ARM defconfigs
[ARM] 3857/2: pnx4008: add devices' registration
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The HP_SIMSCSI driver can't be built as a module (unhealthy dependencies on
things that shouldn't really be exported).
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Use generic_handle_irq() to handle mixed-type irq handling.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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convert irq chip typename -> name.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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`typename' is going away and is usually uninitialised anwyay.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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When called to do a transfer that has a start offset within the cache
line which is uneven between source and destination and a length which
terminates the source of the copy exactly on a cache line, one extra
line gets copied into a temporary buffer. This is normally not an issue
since the buffer is a kernel buffer and only the requested information
gets copied into the user buffer.
The problem arises when the source ends at the very last physical page
of memory. That last cache line does not exist and results in the SHUB
chip raising an MCA.
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Komuro reports that ISA interrupts do not work after a disable_irq(),
causing some PCMCIA drivers to not work, with messages like
eth0: Asix AX88190: io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
eth0: found link beat
eth0: autonegotiation complete: 100baseT-FD selected
eth0: interrupt(s) dropped!
eth0: interrupt(s) dropped!
eth0: interrupt(s) dropped!
...
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said:
"Now, edge-triggered interrupts are a _lot_ harder to mask, because the
Intel APIC is an unbelievable piece of sh*t, and has the edge-detect logic
_before_ the mask logic, so if a edge happens _while_ the device is
masked, you'll never ever see the edge ever again (unmasking will not
cause a new edge, so you simply lost the interrupt).
So when you "mask" an edge-triggered IRQ, you can't really mask it at all,
because if you did that, you'd lose it forever if the IRQ comes in while
you masked it. Instead, we're supposed to leave it active, and set a flag,
and IF the IRQ comes in, we just remember it, and mask it at that point
instead, and then on unmasking, we have to replay it by sending a
self-IPI."
This trivial patch solves the problem.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6:
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix race in exit_idle
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix vgetcpu when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is disabled
[PATCH] x86: Add acpi_user_timer_override option for Asus boards
[PATCH] x86-64: setup saved_max_pfn correctly (kdump)
[PATCH] x86-64: Handle reserve_bootmem_generic beyond end_pfn
[PATCH] x86-64: shorten the x86_64 boot setup GDT to what the comment says
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix PTRACE_[SG]ET_THREAD_AREA regression with ia32 emulation.
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix partial page check to ensure unusable memory is not being marked usable.
Revert "[PATCH] MMCONFIG and new Intel motherboards"
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(David:)
If hugetlbfs_file_mmap() returns a failure to do_mmap_pgoff() - for example,
because the given file offset is not hugepage aligned - then do_mmap_pgoff
will go to the unmap_and_free_vma backout path.
But at this stage the vma hasn't been marked as hugepage, and the backout path
will call unmap_region() on it. That will eventually call down to the
non-hugepage version of unmap_page_range(). On ppc64, at least, that will
cause serious problems if there are any existing hugepage pagetable entries in
the vicinity - for example if there are any other hugepage mappings under the
same PUD. unmap_page_range() will trigger a bad_pud() on the hugepage pud
entries. I suspect this will also cause bad problems on ia64, though I don't
have a machine to test it on.
(Hugh:)
prepare_hugepage_range() should check file offset alignment when it checks
virtual address and length, to stop MAP_FIXED with a bad huge offset from
unmapping before it fails further down. PowerPC should apply the same
prepare_hugepage_range alignment checks as ia64 and all the others do.
Then none of the alignment checks in hugetlbfs_file_mmap are required (nor
is the check for too small a mapping); but even so, move up setting of
VM_HUGETLB and add a comment to warn of what David Gibson discovered - if
hugetlbfs_file_mmap fails before setting it, do_mmap_pgoff's unmap_region
when unwinding from error will go the non-huge way, which may cause bad
behaviour on architectures (powerpc and ia64) which segregate their huge
mappings into a separate region of the address space.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix interrupt routing for via 586 bridges. pirq can be 5 which needs to be
mapped to INTD. But currently the access functions can handle only pirq
1-4. this is similar to the other via chipsets where pirq 4 and 5 are both
mapped to INTD. Fixes bugzilla #7490
Cc: Daniel Paschka <monkey20181@gmx.net>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@susta.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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When another interrupt happens in exit_idle the exit idle notifier
could be called an incorrect number of times.
Add a test_and_clear_bit_pda and use it handle the bit
atomically against interrupts to avoid this.
Pointed out by Stephane Eranian
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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The vgetcpu per CPU initialization previously relied on CPU hotplug
events for all CPUs to initialize the per CPU state. That only
worked only on kernels with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU enabled. On the
others some CPUs didn't get their state initialized properly
and vgetcpu wouldn't work.
Change the initialization sequence to instead run in a normal
initcall (which runs after the normal CPU bootup) and initialize
all running CPUs there. Later hotplug CPUs are still handled
with an hotplug notifier.
This actually simplifies the code somewhat.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Timer overrides are normally disabled on Nvidia board because
they are commonly wrong, except on new ones with HPET support.
Unfortunately there are quite some Asus boards around that
don't have HPET, but need a timer override.
We don't know yet how to handle this transparently,
but at least add a command line option to force the timer override
and let them boot.
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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x86_64: setup saved_max_pfn correctly
2.6.19-rc4 has broken CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP support on x86_64. It is impossible
to read out the kernel contents from /proc/vmcore because saved_max_pfn is set
to zero instead of the max_pfn value before the user map is setup.
This happens because saved_max_pfn is initialized at parse_early_param() time,
and at this time no active regions have been registered. save_max_pfn is setup
from e820_end_of_ram(), more exact find_max_pfn_with_active_regions() which
returns 0 because no regions exist.
This patch fixes this by registering before and removing after the call
to e820_end_of_ram().
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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This can happen on kexec kernels with some configurations, in particularly
on Unisys ES7000 systems.
Analysis by Amul Shah
Cc: Amul Shah <amul.shah@unisys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Stephen Tweedie, Herbert Xu, and myself have been struggling with a very
nasty bug in Xen. But it also pointed out a small bug in the x86_64
kernel boot setup.
The GDT limit being setup by the initial bzImage code when entering into
protected mode is way too big. The comment by the code states that the
size of the GDT is 2048, but the actual size being set up is much bigger
(32768). This happens simply because of one extra '0'.
Instead of setting up a 0x800 size, 0x8000 is set up. On bare metal this
is fine because the CPU wont load any segments unless they are
explicitly used. But unfortunately, this breaks Xen on vmx FV, since it
(for now) blindly loads all the segments into the VMCS if they are less
than the gdt limit. Since the real mode segments are around 0x3000, we are
getting junk into the VMCS and that later causes an exception.
Stephen Tweedie has written up a patch to fix the Xen side and will be
submitting that to those folks. But that doesn't excuse the GDT limit
being a magnitude too big.
AK: changed to compute true gdt size in assembler, fixed comment
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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