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bring back the avr32, blackfin, sh, sparc architectures into working order,
by reverting the effects of this change that came in via the x86 tree:
commit a5a19c63f4e55e32dc0bc3d936d7f94793d8b380
Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Date: Wed Jan 30 13:33:39 2008 +0100
x86: demacro asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h
Sorry about that!
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'for-2.6.25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (454 commits)
[POWERPC] Cell IOMMU fixed mapping support
[POWERPC] Split out the ioid fetching/checking logic
[POWERPC] Add support to cell_iommu_setup_page_tables() for multiple windows
[POWERPC] Split out the IOMMU logic from cell_dma_dev_setup()
[POWERPC] Split cell_iommu_setup_hardware() into two parts
[POWERPC] Split out the logic that allocates struct iommus
[POWERPC] Allocate the hash table under 1G on cell
[POWERPC] Add set_dma_ops() to match get_dma_ops()
[POWERPC] 83xx: Clean up / convert mpc83xx board DTS files to v1 format.
[POWERPC] 85xx: Only invalidate TLB0 and TLB1
[POWERPC] 83xx: Fix typo in mpc837x compatible entries
[POWERPC] 85xx: convert sbc85* boards to use machine_device_initcall
[POWERPC] 83xx: rework platform Kconfig
[POWERPC] 85xx: rework platform Kconfig
[POWERPC] 86xx: Remove unused IRQ defines
[POWERPC] QE: Explicitly set address-cells and size cells for muram
[POWERPC] Convert StorCenter DTS file to /dts-v1/ format.
[POWERPC] 86xx: Convert all 86xx DTS files to /dts-v1/ format.
[PPC] Remove 85xx from arch/ppc
[PPC] Remove 83xx from arch/ppc
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86:
alpha: fix x86.git merge build error
ia64: on UP percpu variables are not small memory model
x86: fix arch/x86/kernel/test_nx.c modular build bug
s390: use generic percpu linux-2.6.git
POWERPC: use generic per cpu
ia64: use generic percpu
SPARC64: use generic percpu
percpu: change Kconfig to HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
modules: fold percpu_modcopy into module.c
x86: export copy_from_user_ll_nocache[_nozero]
x86: fix duplicated TIF on 64-bit
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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: compile capabilities by default
selinux: make selinux_set_mnt_opts() static
SELinux: Add warning messages on network denial due to error
SELinux: Add network ingress and egress control permission checks
NetLabel: Add auditing to the static labeling mechanism
NetLabel: Introduce static network labels for unlabeled connections
SELinux: Allow NetLabel to directly cache SIDs
SELinux: Enable dynamic enable/disable of the network access checks
SELinux: Better integration between peer labeling subsystems
SELinux: Add a new peer class and permissions to the Flask definitions
SELinux: Add a capabilities bitmap to SELinux policy version 22
SELinux: Add a network node caching mechanism similar to the sel_netif_*() functions
SELinux: Only store the network interface's ifindex
SELinux: Convert the netif code to use ifindex values
NetLabel: Add IP address family information to the netlbl_skbuff_getattr() function
NetLabel: Add secid token support to the NetLabel secattr struct
NetLabel: Consolidate the LSM domain mapping/hashing locks
NetLabel: Cleanup the LSM domain hash functions
NetLabel: Remove unneeded RCU read locks
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
PPC: Fix powerpc vio_find_name to not use devices_subsys
Driver core: add bus_find_device_by_name function
Module: check to see if we have a built in module with the same name
x86: fix runtime error in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
Driver core: Fix up build when CONFIG_BLOCK=N
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ia64 has a special processor specific mapping that can be used to locate the
offset for the current per cpu area.
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Migrating the apic timer in the critical section is not very nice, and is
absolutely horrible with the real-time port. Move migration to the regular
vcpu execution path, triggered by a new bitflag.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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kvm_para.h potentially contains definitions that are to be used by userspace,
so it should not be included inside the __KERNEL__ block. To protect its own
data structures, kvm_para.h already includes its own __KERNEL__ block.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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This patch moves kvm_fpu asm-x86/kvm.h to allow every architecture to
define an own representation used for KVM_GET_FPU/KVM_SET_FPU.
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Convert the synchronization of the shadow handling to a separate mmu_lock
spinlock.
Also guard fetch() by mmap_sem in read-mode to protect against alias
and memslot changes.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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In preparation for a mmu spinlock, add kvm_read_guest_atomic()
and use it in fetch() and prefetch_page().
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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This adds a mechanism for exposing the virtual apic tpr to the guest, and a
protocol for letting the guest update the tpr without causing a vmexit if
conditions allow (e.g. there is no interrupt pending with a higher priority
than the new tpr).
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Add a facility to report on accesses to the local apic tpr even if the
local apic is emulated in the kernel. This is basically a hack that
allows userspace to patch Windows which tends to bang on the tpr a lot.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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IA64 also needs to see ioapic structure in irqchip.
Signed-off-by: xiantao.zhang@intel.com <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Moving kvm_vcpu_kick() to x86.c. Since it should be
common for all archs, put its declarations in <linux/kvm_host.h>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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This paves the way for multiple architecture support. Note that while
ioapic.c could potentially be shared with ia64, it is also moved.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Currently, make headers_check barfs due to <asm/kvm.h>, which <linux/kvm.h>
includes, not existing. Rather than add a zillion <asm/kvm.h>s, export kvm.h
only if the arch actually supports it.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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This patch fixes a small issue where sturctures:
kvm_pic_state
kvm_ioapic_state
are defined inside x86 specific code and may or may not
be defined in anyway for other architectures. The problem
caused is one cannot compile userspace apps (ex. libkvm)
for other archs since a size cannot be determined for these
structures.
Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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The current cpuid management suffers from several problems, which inhibit
passing through the host feature set to the guest:
- No way to tell which features the host supports
While some features can be supported with no changes to kvm, others
need explicit support. That means kvm needs to vet the feature set
before it is passed to the guest.
- No support for indexed or stateful cpuid entries
Some cpuid entries depend on ecx as well as on eax, or on internal
state in the processor (running cpuid multiple times with the same
input returns different output). The current cpuid machinery only
supports keying on eax.
- No support for save/restore/migrate
The internal state above needs to be exposed to userspace so it can
be saved or migrated.
This patch adds extended cpuid support by means of three new ioctls:
- KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID: get all cpuid entries the host (and kvm)
supports
- KVM_SET_CPUID2: sets the vcpu's cpuid table
- KVM_GET_CPUID2: gets the vcpu's cpuid table, including hidden state
[avi: fix original KVM_SET_CPUID not removing nx on non-nx hosts as it did
before]
Signed-off-by: Dan Kenigsberg <danken@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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This patch moves structures:
kvm_cpuid_entry
kvm_cpuid
from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h
Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Move structures:
kvm_sregs
kvm_msr_entry
kvm_msrs
kvm_msr_list
from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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This patch moves structures:
kvm_segment
kvm_dtable
from include/linux/kvm.h to include/asm-x86/kvm.h
Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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This patch moves structure lapic_state from include/linux/kvm.h
to include/asm-x86/kvm.h
Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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This patch moves structure kvm_regs to include/asm-x86/kvm.h.
Each architecture will need to create there own version of this
structure.
Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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This patch moves structures:
kvm_pic_state
kvm_ioapic_state
to inclue/asm-x86/kvm.h.
Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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This patch moves sturct kvm_memory_alias from include/linux/kvm.h
to include/asm-x86/kvm.h. Also have include/linux/kvm.h include
include/asm/kvm.h.
Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Currently kvm has a wart in that it requires three extra pages for use
as a tss when emulating real mode on Intel. This patch moves the allocation
internally, only requiring userspace to tell us where in the physical address
space we can place the tss.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Currently kvm provides hypercalls only for x86* architectures. To
provide hypercall infrastructure for other kvm architectures I split
kvm_para.h into a generic header file and architecture specific
definitions.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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Instead of having the kernel allocate memory to the guest, let userspace
allocate it and pass the address to the kernel.
This is required for s390 support, but also enables features like memory
sharing and using hugetlbfs backed memory.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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The user is now able to set how many mmu pages will be allocated to the guest.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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This patch refactors the current hypercall infrastructure to better
support live migration and SMP. It eliminates the hypercall page by
trapping the UD exception that would occur if you used the wrong hypercall
instruction for the underlying architecture and replacing it with the right
one lazily.
A fall-out of this patch is that the unhandled hypercalls no longer trap to
userspace. There is very little reason though to use a hypercall to
communicate with userspace as PIO or MMIO can be used. There is no code
in tree that uses userspace hypercalls.
[avi: fix #ud injection on vmx]
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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This patch adds a new configuration option, which adds support for a new
early_param which gets checked in arch/x86/kernel/setup_{32,64}.c:setup_arch()
to decide wether OHCI-1394 FireWire controllers should be initialized and
enabled for physical DMA access to allow remote debugging of early problems
like issues ACPI or other subsystems which are executed very early.
If the config option is not enabled, no code is changed, and if the boot
paramenter is not given, no new code is executed, and independent of that,
all new code is freed after boot, so the config option can be even enabled
in standard, non-debug kernels.
With specialized tools, it is then possible to get debugging information
from machines which have no serial ports (notebooks) such as the printk
buffer contents, or any data which can be referenced from global pointers,
if it is stored below the 4GB limit and even memory dumps of of the physical
RAM region below the 4GB limit can be taken without any cooperation from the
CPU of the host, so the machine can be crashed early, it does not matter.
In the extreme, even kernel debuggers can be accessed in this way. I wrote
a small kgdb module and an accompanying gdb stub for FireWire which allows
to gdb to talk to kgdb using remote remory reads and writes over FireWire.
An version of the gdb stub fore FireWire is able to read all global data
from a system which is running a a normal kernel without any kernel debugger,
without any interruption or support of the system's CPU. That way, e.g. the
task struct and so on can be read and even manipulated when the physical DMA
access is granted.
A HOWTO is included in this patch, in Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
and I've put a copy online at
ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/docs/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
It also has links to all the tools which are available to make use of it
another copy of it is online at:
ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/kernel/ohci1394_dma_early-v2.diff
Signed-Off-By: Bernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de>
Tested-By: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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get more testing of the c_p_a() code done by not turning off
PSE on DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
this simplifies the early pagetable setup code, and tests
the largepage-splitup code quite heavily.
In the end, all the largepages will be split up pretty quickly,
so there's no difference to how DEBUG_PAGEALLOC worked before.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Convert macros into inline functions, for better type-checking.
This patch required a little bit of fiddling with headers in order to
make __(pte|pmd)_free_tlb inline rather than macros.
asm-generic/tlb.h includes asm/pgalloc.h, though it doesn't directly
use any pgalloc definitions. I removed this include to avoid an
include cycle, but it may cause secondary compile failures by things
depending on the indirect inclusion; arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c was one
such place; there may be others.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This patch defines the PCI identifiers found in
the RDC R-321x System-on-Chip.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@telecomint.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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They now look like:
hal-resmgr[13791]: segfault at 3c rip 2b9c8caec182 rsp 7fff1e825d30 error 4 in libacl.so.1.1.0[2b9c8caea000+6000]
This makes it easier to pinpoint bugs to specific libraries.
And printing the offset into a mapping also always allows to find the
correct fault point in a library even with randomized mappings. Previously
there was no way to actually find the correct code address inside
the randomized mapping.
Relies on earlier patch to shorten the printk formats.
They are often now longer than 80 characters, but I think that's worth it.
[includes fix from Eric Dumazet to check d_path error value]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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On VMs implemented using JITs that cache translated code changing the lock
prefixes is a quite costly operation that forces the JIT to throw away and
retranslate a lot of code.
Previously a SMP kernel would rewrite the locks once for each CPU which
is quite unnecessary. This patch changes the code to never switch at boot in
the normal case (SMP kernel booting with >1 CPU) or only once for SMP kernel
on UP.
This makes a significant difference in boot up performance on AMD SimNow!
Also I expect it to be a little faster on native systems too because a smp
switch does a lot of text_poke()s which each synchronize the pipeline.
v1->v2: Rename max_cpus
v1->v2: Fix off by one in UP check (Thomas Gleixner)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The ENDPROCs() were not used everywhere. Some code used just END() instead,
while other code used nothing. um/sys-i386/checksum.S didn't #include
<linux/linkage.h> . I also got confused because gcc puts the
.type near the ENTRY, while ENDPROC puts it on the opposite end.
Signed off by: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Enable CONFIG_EMBEDDED to select CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK on 64-bit as well.
saves ~2K:
text data bss dec hex filename
7290283 3672091 1907848 12870222 c4624e vmlinux.before
7288373 3671795 1907848 12868016 c459b0 vmlinux.after
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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introduce the "asmregparm" calling convention: for functions
implemented in assembly with a fixed regparm input parameters
calling convention.
mark the semaphore and rwsem slowpath functions with that.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Here is a quick and naive smoke test for kprobes. This is intended to
just verify if some unrelated change broke the *probes subsystem. It is
self contained, architecture agnostic and isn't of any great use by itself.
This needs to be built in the kernel and runs a basic set of tests to
verify if kprobes, jprobes and kretprobes run fine on the kernel. In case
of an error, it'll print out a message with a "BUG" prefix.
This is a start; we intend to add more tests to this bucket over time.
Thanks to Jim Keniston and Masami Hiramatsu for comments and suggestions.
Tested on x86 (32/64) and powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- Special consideration for IA64: Add the ability to specify
arch specific per cpu flags
- remove .data.percpu attribute from DEFINE_PER_CPU for non-smp case.
The arch definitions are all the same. So move them into linux/percpu.h.
We cannot move DECLARE_PER_CPU since some include files just include
asm/percpu.h to avoid include recursion problems.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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# HG changeset patch
# User Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
# Date 1199317452 28800
# Node ID f7e7db3facd9406545103164f9be8f9ba1a2b549
# Parent 4d9a413a0f4c1d98dbea704f0366457b5117045d
x86: add _AT() macro to conditionally cast
Define _AT(type, value) to conditionally cast a value when compiling C
code, but not when used in assembler.
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>
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This makes ELF core dumps of 32-bit processes include a new
note type NT_386_TLS (0x200) giving the contents of the TLS
slots in struct user_desc format. This lets post mortem
examination figure out what the segment registers mean like
the debugger does with get_thread_area on a live process.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This adds a generic definition of compat_sys_ptrace that calls
compat_arch_ptrace, parallel to sys_ptrace/arch_ptrace. Some
machines needing this already define a function by that name.
The new generic function is defined only on machines that
put #define __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACE into asm/ptrace.h.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This adds a compat_ptrace_request that is the analogue of ptrace_request
for the things that 32-on-64 ptrace implementations can share in common.
So far there are just a couple of requests handled generically.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This defines two new inlines in linux/regset.h, for use in arch_ptrace
implementations and the like. These provide simplified wrappers for using
the user_regset interfaces to copy thread regset data into the caller's
user-space memory. The inlines are trivial, but make the common uses in
places such as ptrace implementation much more concise, easier to read, and
less prone to code-copying errors.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This adds some inlines to linux/regset.h intended for arch code to use in
its user_regset get and set functions. These make it pretty easy to deal
with the interface's optional kernel-space or user-space pointers and its
generalized access to a part of the register data at a time.
In simple cases where the internal data structure matches the exported
layout (core dump format), a get function can be nothing but a call to
user_regset_copyout, and a set function a call to user_regset_copyin.
In other cases the exported layout is usually made up of a few pieces each
stored contiguously in a different internal data structure. These helpers
make it straightforward to write a get or set function by processing each
contiguous chunk of the data in order. The start_pos and end_pos arguments
are always constants, so these inlines collapse to a small amount of code.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The new header <linux/regset.h> defines the types struct user_regset and
struct user_regset_view, with some associated declarations. This new set
of interfaces will become the standard way for arch code to expose
user-mode machine-specific state. A single set of entry points into arch
code can do all the low-level work in one place to fill the needs of core
dumps, ptrace, and any other user-mode debugging facilities that might come
along in the future.
For existing arch code to adapt to the user_regset interfaces, each arch
can work from the code it already has to support core files and ptrace.
The formats you want for user_regset are the core file formats. The only
wrinkle in adapting old ptrace implementation code as user_regset get and
set functions is that these functions can be called on current as well as
on another task_struct that is stopped and switched out as for ptrace.
For some kinds of machine state, you may have to load it directly from CPU
registers or otherwise differently for current than for another thread.
(Your core dump support already handles this in elf_core_copy_regs for
current and elf_core_copy_task_regs for other tasks, so just check there.)
The set function should also be made to work on current in case that
entails some special cases, though this was never required before for
ptrace. Adding this flexibility covers the arch needs to open the door to
more sophisticated new debugging facilities that don't always need to
context-switch to do every little thing.
The copyin/copyout helper functions (in a later patch) relieve the arch
code of most of the cumbersome details of the flexible get/set interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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