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2008-03-15[PARISC] move defconfig to arch/parisc/configs/Adrian Bunk
This patch moves the default parisc defconfig to arch/parisc/configs/generic_defconfig where it belongs and selects it as the default defconfig through KBUILD_DEFCONFIG. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi> Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2008-03-15[PARISC] pdc_console: fix bizarre panic on bootKyle McMartin
Commit 721fdf34167580ff98263c74cead8871d76936e6 introduced a subtle bug by accidently removing the "static" from iodc_dbuf. This resulted in, what appeared to be, a trap without *current set to a task. Probably the result of a trap in real mode while calling firmware. Also do other misc clean ups. Since the only input from firmware is non blocking, share iodc_dbuf between input and output, and spinlock the only callers. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2008-03-15[PARISC] dump_stack in show_regsKyle McMartin
Originally, show_stack was used in BUG() output. However, a recent commit changed it to print register state (no idea what that's supposed to help, really...) and parisc was missing a backtrace because of it. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2008-03-15[PARISC] remove unused pdc_iodc_printf functionKyle McMartin
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2008-03-15[PARISC] wire up timerfd syscallsKyle McMartin
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2008-03-15[PARISC] remove old timerfd syscallKyle McMartin
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2008-03-14sh: Fix uImage build error.Paul Mundt
The printf string was broken in the same way the zImage one was before, though the uImage managed to avoid getting fixed at that time. Do so now. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2008-03-13avr32: Build fix for CONFIG_BUG=nHaavard Skinnemoen
Don't include the BUG trap handling code when CONFIG_BUG is not set. This fixes allnoconfig. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-03-13Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (32 commits) ACPI: thermal: show temperature in millidegree Celsius thermal: fix generic thermal I/F for hwmon acer-wmi: build depends on i8042 documentation: Move power-related files to Documentation/power/ ACPI: buffer array too short in drivers/acpi/system.c acer-wmi: Add DMI quirk for mail LED support on Acer Aspire 3610/ 5610 acer-wmi: Fix DSDT path in documentation acer-wmi: Make device detection error messages more descriptive laptops: move laptop-mode.txt to Documentation/laptops/ ACPICA: Warn if packages with invalid references are evaluated ACPI: add _PRT quirks to work around broken firmware Hibernation: Fix mark_nosave_pages() ACPI: Ignore _BQC object when registering backlight device ACPI: WMI: Clean up handling of spec violating data blocks acer-wmi: Don't warn if mail LED cannot be detected acer-wmi: Rename mail LED correctly & remove hardcoded colour ACPI: use ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT instead of printk in acpi_processor_hotplug_notify() ACPI: button: make real parent for input devices in device tree toshiba_acpi: Enable autoloading ACPI: EC: Handle IRQ storm on Acer laptops ...
2008-03-13alpha: use iommu_is_span_boundary helper functionFUJITA Tomonori
iommu_is_span_boundary in lib/iommu-helper.c was exported for PARISC IOMMUs (commit 3715863aa142c4f4c5208f5f3e5e9bac06006d2f). Alpha's IOMMU can use it. This removes the check on the boundary size alignment because iommu_is_span_boundary does. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Acked-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-13sh: Fix up the timer IRQ definition for SH7203.Paul Mundt
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2008-03-13sh: Fix up the address error exception handler for SH-2.Kieran Bingham
Presently the SH-2/SH-2A address error exception dispatch copies off the register state from the stack and skips over the first register, skewing the rest. Fix up the math here so that the proper register state is handed down to the exception handler itself. Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@mpc-data.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2008-03-13Merge branches 'release' and 'doc' into releaseLen Brown
2008-03-12Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (26 commits) [ARM] 4856/1: Orion: initialise the sixth PCIe MBUS mapping window as well [ARM] 4855/1: Orion: use correct ethernet unit address range [ARM] 4853/1: include uImage target in make help [ARM] 4851/1: ns9xxx: fix size of gpiores [ARM] AT91: correct at91sam9263ek LCD power gpio pin [ARM] replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences [ARM] 4850/1: include generic pgtable.h for !CONFIG_MMU case [ARM] 4849/1: move ATAGS asm definitions [ARM] 4848/1: at91: remove false lockdep warnings [ARM] 4847/1: kprobes: fix compilation with CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y [ARM] include/asm-arm - use angle brackets for includes [ARM] 4845/1: Orion: Ignore memory tags with invalid data ARM: OMAP2: Register the L4 io bus to boot OMAP2 ARM: OMAP1: Compile in other 16xx boards to OSK defconfig ARM: OMAP1: Refresh H2 defconfig ARM: OMAP1: Refresh OSK defconfig ARM: OMAP: gpio lockdep updates ARM: OMAP1: omap1/pm.c build fix ARM: OMAP1: omap h2 regression fix ARM: OMAP1: Fix compile for boards depending on old gpio expander ...
2008-03-12Merge 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: (22 commits) [POWERPC] Fix large hash table allocation on Cell blades [POWERPC] Export empty_zero_page [POWERPC] Fix viodasd driver with scatterlist debug [POWERPC] Fix arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/pic.c when !CONFIG_ADB_PMU [POWERPC] Fix drivers/macintosh/mediabay.c when !CONFIG_ADB_PMU [POWERPC] Fix undefined pmu_sys_suspended compilation error [POWERPC] Fix build of modular drivers/macintosh/apm_emu.c [POWERPC] Fix sleep on some powerbooks [POWERPC] Fix bogus test for unassigned PCI resources [POWERPC] Fix zImage-dtb.initrd build error [POWERPC] Add __ucmpdi2 for 64-bit comparisons in 32-bit kernels [POWERPC] spufs: fix rescheduling of non-runnable contexts [POWERPC] spufs: don't (ab)use SCHED_IDLE [POWERPC] QE: Make qe_get_firmware_info reentrant [POWERPC] 83xx: Make 83xx perfmon support selectable [PPC] 8xx: swap bug-fix [POWERPC] 85xx: sbc8548 - Fix incorrect PCI-X and PCI interrupt map [POWERPC] QE: Fix QE firmware uploading limit [POWERPC] 8xx: Fix wrapper platform for adder875, and combine defconfigs. [POWERPC] 8xx: fix swap ...
2008-03-13[POWERPC] Fix large hash table allocation on Cell bladesMichael Ellerman
My recent hack to allocate the hash table under 1GB on cell was poorly tested, *cough*. It turns out on blades with large amounts of memory we fail to allocate the hash table at all. This is because RTAS has been instantiated just below 768MB, and 0-x MB are used by the kernel, leaving no areas that are both large enough and also naturally-aligned. For the cell IOMMU hack the page tables must be under 2GB, so use that as the limit instead. This has been tested on real hardware and boots happily. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-13[POWERPC] Export empty_zero_pageTheodore Ts'o
Once again, this time with feeling.... - Ted >From c91cfaabc17f8a53807a2f31f067a732e34a1550 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:50:39 -0400 Subject: Export empty_zero_page The empty_zero_page symbol is exported by most other architectures (s390, ia64, x86, um), and an upcoming ext4 patch needs it because ZERO_PAGE() references empty_zero_page, and we need it to zero out an unitialized extents in ext4 files. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-13[POWERPC] Fix arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/pic.c when !CONFIG_ADB_PMUTony Breeds
When building arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/pic.c when !CONFIG_ADB_PMU we get the following warnings: arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/pic.c: In function 'pmacpic_find_viaint': arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/pic.c:623: warning: label 'not_found' defined but not used This fixes it. Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-13[POWERPC] Fix bogus test for unassigned PCI resourcesBenjamin Herrenschmidt
A bogus test for unassigned resources that came from our 32-bit PCI code ended up being "merged" by my previous patch series, breaking some 64-bit setups where devices have legal resources ending at 0xffffffff. This fixes it by completely changing the test. We now test for res->start == 0, as the generic code expects, and we also only do so on platforms that don't have the PPC_PCI_PROBE_ONLY flag set, as there are cases of pSeries and iSeries where it could be a valid value and those can't reassign devices. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-13[POWERPC] Fix zImage-dtb.initrd build errorGrant Likely
The pattern substitution rules were failing when used with zImage-dtb targets. If zImage-dtb.initrd was selected, the pattern substitution would generate "zImage.initrd-dtb" instead of "zImage-dtb.initrd" which caused the build to fail. This renames zImage-dtb to dtbImage to avoid the problem entirely. By not using the zImage prefix then is no potential for namespace collisions. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-13[POWERPC] Add __ucmpdi2 for 64-bit comparisons in 32-bit kernelsPaul Mackerras
Some drivers (such as V4L2) have code that causes gcc to generate calls to __ucmpdi2 when compiling for 32-bit powerpc, which results in either a link-time error or a module that can't be loaded, as we don't currently have a __ucmpdi2. This adds one so these drivers can be used. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-12documentation: Move power-related files to Documentation/power/Randy Dunlap
Move 00-INDEX entries to power/00-INDEX (and add entry for pm_qos_interface.txt). Update references to moved filenames. Fix some trailing whitespace. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-12[MIPS] Clocksource: Only install r4k counter as clocksource if present.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-03-12[MIPS] Delete leftovers of old pcspeaker support.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-03-12[MIPS] BCM1480: Init pci controller io_map_baseThomas Bogendoerfer
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-03-12[MIPS] Yosemite: Fix a few more section reference bugs.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-03-12[MIPS] Fix loads of section missmatchesRalf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-03-12[MIPS] Export __ucmpdi2 to modules.Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-03-12[MIPS] Fix typo in commentThiemo Seufer
We support now other page sizes as well. Signed-off-by: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-03-12[MIPS] Use KBUILD_DEFCONFIGAdrian Bunk
With KBUILD_DEFCONFIG we don't have to ship a second copy of ip22_defconfig. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@movial.fi> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-03-12[MIPS] Allow 48Hz to be selected if CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_ARBIT_HZ is set.Ralf Baechle
This allows a 48Hz clock to be selected on Malta and other systems. Note this not normally a sensible option as it results in rather high latencies for some kernel stuff. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-03-12[MIPS] Added missing cases for rdhwr emulationChris Dearman
Some of these are architecturally required for R2 processors so lets try to be bit closer to the real thing. This also provides access to the CPU cycle timer, even on multiprocessors. In that aspect its currently bug compatible to what would happen on a R2-based SMP. Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-03-12[MIPS] Alchemy: Fix ids in Alchemy db dma device tableWolfgang Ocker
0 is a valid device id (DSCR_CMD0_UART0_TX), so we can't use it to mark an empty entry in the device table. Use ~0 instead and search for id ~0 when looking for a free entry. Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Ocker <weo@reccoware.de> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-03-12Merge branch 'master' of ↵Paul Mackerras
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jk/spufs into merge
2008-03-11x86: remove quicklistsThomas Gleixner
quicklists cause a serious memory leak on 32-bit x86, as documented at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9991 the reason is that the quicklist pool is a special-purpose cache that grows out of proportion. It is not accounted for anywhere and users have no way to even realize that it's the quicklists that are causing RAM usage spikes. It was supposed to be a relatively small pool, but as demonstrated by KOSAKI Motohiro, they can grow as large as: Quicklists: 1194304 kB given how much trouble this code has caused historically, and given that Andrew objected to its introduction on x86 (years ago), the best option at this point is to remove them. [ any performance benefits of caching constructed pgds should be implemented in a more generic way (possibly within the page allocator), while still allowing constructed pages to be allocated by other workloads. ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-11x86: ia32 syscall restart fixRoland McGrath
The code to restart syscalls after signals depends on checking for a negative orig_ax, and for particular negative -ERESTART* values in ax. These fields are 64 bits and for a 32-bit task they get zero-extended. The syscall restart behavior is lost, a regression from a native 32-bit kernel and from 64-bit tasks' behavior. This patch fixes the problem by doing sign-extension where it matters. For orig_ax, the only time the value should be -1 but winds up as 0x0ffffffff is via a 32-bit ptrace call. So the patch changes ptrace to sign-extend the 32-bit orig_eax value when it's stored; it doesn't change the checks on orig_ax, though it uses the new current_syscall() inline to better document the subtle importance of the used of signedness there. The ax value is stored a lot of ways and it seems hard to get them all sign-extended at their origins. So for that, we use the current_syscall_ret() to sign-extend it only for 32-bit tasks at the time of the -ERESTART* comparisons. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-11x86: ioremap, remove WARN_ON()Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-11[POWERPC] spufs: fix rescheduling of non-runnable contextsJeremy Kerr
At present, we can hit the BUG_ON in __spu_update_sched_info by reading the regs file of a context between two calls to spu_run. The spu_release_saved called by spufs_regs_read() is resulting in the (now non-runnable) context being placed back on the run queue, so the next call to spu_run ends up in the bug condition. This change uses the SPU_SCHED_SPU_RUN flag to only reschedule a context if it's still in spu_run(). Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-03-11[POWERPC] spufs: don't (ab)use SCHED_IDLEJeremy Kerr
commit 4ef11014 introduced a usage of SCHED_IDLE to detect when a context is within spu_run. Instead of SCHED_IDLE (which has other meaning), add a flag to sched_flags to tell if a context should be running. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2008-03-10fix BIOS PCI config cycle buglet causing ACPI boot regressionIngo Molnar
I figured out another ACPI related regression today. randconfig testing triggered an early boot-time hang on a laptop of mine (32-bit x86, config attached) - the screen was scrolling ACPI AML exceptions [with no serial port and no early debugging available]. v2.6.24 works fine on that laptop with the same .config, so after a few hours of bisection (had to restart it 3 times - other regressions interacted), it honed in on this commit: | 10270d4838bdc493781f5a1cf2e90e9c34c9142f is first bad commit | | Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | Date: Wed Feb 13 09:56:14 2008 -0800 | | acpi: fix acpi_os_read_pci_configuration() misuse of raw_pci_read() reverting this commit ontop of -rc5 gave a correctly booting kernel. But this commit fixes a real bug so the real question is, why did it break the bootup? After quite some head-scratching, the following change stood out: - pci_id->bus = tu8; + pci_id->bus = val; pci_id->bus is defined as u16: struct acpi_pci_id { u16 segment; u16 bus; ... and 'tu8' changed from u8 to u32. So previously we'd unconditionally mask the return value of acpi_os_read_pci_configuration() (raw_pci_read()) to 8 bits, but now we just trust whatever comes back from the PCI access routines and only crop it to 16 bits. But if the high 8 bits of that result contains any noise then we'll write that into ACPI's PCI ID descriptor and confuse the heck out of the rest of ACPI. So lets check the PCI-BIOS code on that theory. We have this codepath for 8-bit accesses (arch/x86/pci/pcbios.c:pci_bios_read()): switch (len) { case 1: __asm__("lcall *(%%esi); cld\n\t" "jc 1f\n\t" "xor %%ah, %%ah\n" "1:" : "=c" (*value), "=a" (result) : "1" (PCIBIOS_READ_CONFIG_BYTE), "b" (bx), "D" ((long)reg), "S" (&pci_indirect)); Aha! The "=a" output constraint puts the full 32 bits of EAX into *value. But if the BIOS's routines set any of the high bits to nonzero, we'll return a value with more set in it than intended. The other, more common PCI access methods (v1 and v2 PCI reads) clear out the high bits already, for example pci_conf1_read() does: switch (len) { case 1: *value = inb(0xCFC + (reg & 3)); which explicitly converts the return byte up to 32 bits and zero-extends it. So zero-extending the result in the PCI-BIOS read routine fixes the regression on my laptop. ( It might fix some other long-standing issues we had with PCI-BIOS during the past decade ... ) Both 8-bit and 16-bit accesses were buggy. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-11lguest: Revert 1ce70c4fac3c3954bd48c035f448793867592bc0, fix real problem.Rusty Russell
Ahmed managed to crash the Host in release_pgd(), which cannot be a Guest bug, and indeed it wasn't. The bug was that handing a 0 as the address of the toplevel page table being manipulated can cause the lookup code in find_pgdir() to return an uninitialized cache entry (we shadow up to 4 top level page tables for each Guest). Commit 37cc8d7f963ba2deec29c9b68716944516a3244f introduced this behaviour in the Guest, uncovering the bug. The patch which he submitted (which removed the /4 from the index calculation) simply ensured that these high-indexed entries hit the early exit path of guest_set_pmd(). But you get lots of segfaults in guest userspace as the PMDs aren't being updated. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-11lguest: Sanitize the lguest clock.Rusty Russell
Now the TSC code handles a zero return from calculate_cpu_khz(), lguest can simply pass through the value it gets from the Host: if non-zero, all the normal TSC code applies. Otherwise (or if the Host really doesn't support TSC), the clocksource code will fall back to the slower but reasonable lguest clock. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-10[POWERPC] QE: Make qe_get_firmware_info reentrantIonut Nicu
The function was returning NULL the second time it was called if the firmware was uploaded from the boot loader or the first time it was called if the firmware was uploaded from the kernel. Signed-off-by: Ionut Nicu <ionut.nicu@freescale.com> Acked-By: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-03-10[POWERPC] 83xx: Make 83xx perfmon support selectableAndy Fleming
Not all e300 cores support the performance monitors, and the ones that don't will be confused by the mf/mtpmr instructions. This allows the support to be optional, so the 8349 can turn it off while the 8379 can turn it on. Sadly, those aren't config options, so it will be left to the defconfigs and the users to make that determination. Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-03-09alpha: fix iommu-related boot panicIvan Kokshaysky
This fixes a boot panic due to a typo in the recent iommu patchset from FUJITA Tomonori <tomof@acm.org> - the code used dma_get_max_seg_size() instead of dma_get_seg_boundary(). It also removes a couple of unnecessary BUG_ON() and ALIGN() macros. Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Reported-and-tested-by: Bob Tracy <rct@frus.com> Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <tomof@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-08[ARM] 4856/1: Orion: initialise the sixth PCIe MBUS mapping window as wellLennert Buytenhek
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-03-08[ARM] 4855/1: Orion: use correct ethernet unit address rangeLennert Buytenhek
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-03-08[ARM] 4853/1: include uImage target in make helpUwe Kleine-König
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-03-08[ARM] 4851/1: ns9xxx: fix size of gpioresUwe Kleine-König
GPIO_MAX is the number of the last gpio, not the number of gpios. So the bitmap must provide GPIO_MAX + 1 bits. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-03-07x86_64: make ptrace always sign-extend orig_ax to 64 bitsRoland McGrath
This makes 64-bit ptrace calls setting the 64-bit orig_ax field for a 32-bit task sign-extend the low 32 bits up to 64. This matches what a 64-bit debugger expects when tracing a 32-bit task. This follows on my "x86_64 ia32 syscall restart fix". This didn't matter until that was fixed. The debugger ignores or zeros the high half of every register slot it sets (including the orig_rax pseudo-register) uniformly. It expects that the setting of the low 32 bits always has the same meaning as a 32-bit debugger setting those same 32 bits with native 32-bit facilities. This never arose before because the syscall restart check never matched any -ERESTART* values due to lack of sign extension. Before that fix, even 32-bit ptrace setting orig_eax to -1 failed to trigger the restart check anyway. So this was never noticed as a regression of 64-bit debuggers vs 32-bit debuggers on the same 64-bit kernel. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> [ Changed to just do the sign-extension unconditionally on x86-64, since orig_ax is always just a small integer and doesn't need the full 64-bit range ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>