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2006-06-26[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for i386Anil S Keshavamurthy
Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary components in the do_page_fault() code path. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for x86_64Anil S Keshavamurthy
Currently in the do_page_fault() code path, we call notify_die(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, ...) to notify the page fault. Since notify_die() is highly overloaded, this page fault notification is currently being sent to all the components registered with register_die_notification() which uses the same die_chain to loop for all the registered components which is unnecessary. In order to optimize the do_page_fault() code path, this critical page fault notification is now moved to different call chain and the test results showed great improvements. And the kprobes which is interested in this notifications, now registers onto this new call chain only when it need to, i.e Kprobes now registers for page fault notification only when their are an active probes and unregisters from this page fault notification when no probes are active. I have incorporated all the feedback given by Ananth and Keith and everyone, and thanks for all the review feedback. This patch: Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary components in the do_page_fault() code path. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] fix and optimize clock source updateRoman Zippel
This fixes the clock source updates in update_wall_time() to correctly track the time coming in via current_tick_length(). Optimize the fast paths to be as short as possible to keep the overhead low. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] generic-time: add macro to simplify/hide mask constantsJim Cromie
Add a CLOCKSOURCE_MASK macro to simplify initializing the mask for a struct clocksource, and use it to replace literal mask constants in the various clocksource drivers. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] time: rename clocksource functionsjohn stultz
As suggested by Roman Zippel, change clocksource functions to use clocksource_xyz rather then xyz_clocksource to avoid polluting the namespace. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] Time: i386 Conversion - part 3: Enable Generic Timekeepingjohn stultz
This converts the i386 arch to use the generic timeofday subsystem. It enabled the GENERIC_TIME option, disables the timer_opts code and other arch specific timekeeping code and reworks the delay code. While this patch enables the generic timekeeping, please note that this patch does not provide any i386 clocksource. Thus only the jiffies clocksource will be available. To get full replacements for the code being disabled here, the timeofday-clocks-i386 patch will needed. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] Time: i386 Conversion - part 2: Rework TSC Supportjohn stultz
As part of the i386 conversion to the generic timekeeping infrastructure, this introduces a new tsc.c file. The code in this file replaces the TSC initialization, management and access code currently in timer_tsc.c (which will be removed) that we want to preserve. The code also introduces the following functionality: o tsc_khz: like cpu_khz but stores the TSC frequency on systems that do not change TSC frequency w/ CPU frequency o check/mark_tsc_unstable: accessor/modifier flag for TSC timekeeping usability o minor cleanups to calibration math. This patch also includes a one line __cpuinitdata fix from Zwane Mwaikambo. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] Time: Introduce arch generic time accessorsjohn stultz
Introduces clocksource switching code and the arch generic time accessor functions that use the clocksource infrastructure. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] Time: Use clocksource abstraction for NTP adjustmentsjohn stultz
Instead of incrementing xtime by tick_nsec + ntp adjustments, use the clocksource abstraction to increment and scale time. Using the clocksource abstraction allows other clocksources to be used consistently in the face of late or lost ticks, while preserving the existing behavior via the jiffies clocksource. This removes the need to keep time_phase adjustments as we just use the current_tick_length() function as the NTP interface and accumulate time using shifted nanoseconds. The basics of this design was by Roman Zippel, however it is my own interpretation and implementation, so the credit should go to him and the blame to me. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] Time: Let user request precision from current_tick_length()john stultz
Change the current_tick_length() function so it takes an argument which specifies how much precision to return in shifted nanoseconds. This provides a simple way to convert between NTPs internal nanoseconds shifted by (SHIFT_SCALE - 10) to other shifted nanosecond units that are used by the clocksource abstraction. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] Time: Use clocksource infrastructure for update_wall_timejohn stultz
Modify the update_wall_time function so it increments time using the clocksource abstraction instead of jiffies. Since the only clocksource driver currently provided is the jiffies clocksource, this should result in no functional change. Additionally, a timekeeping_init and timekeeping_resume function has been added to initialize and maintain some of the new timekeping state. [hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: fixlet] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] Time: Clocksource Infrastructurejohn stultz
This introduces the clocksource management infrastructure. A clocksource is a driver-like architecture generic abstraction of a free-running counter. This code defines the clocksource structure, and provides management code for registering, selecting, accessing and scaling clocksources. Additionally, this includes the trivial jiffies clocksource, a lowest common denominator clocksource, provided mainly for use as an example. [hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: Don't enable IRQ too early] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] Add new generic HW RNG coreMichael Buesch
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] keys: discard the contents of a key on revocationDavid Howells
Cause the keys linked to a keyring to be unlinked from it when revoked and it causes the data attached to a user-defined key to be discarded when revoked. This frees up most of the quota a key occupied at that point, rather than waiting for the key to actually be destroyed. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26[PATCH] keys: sort out key quota systemDavid Howells
Add the ability for key creation to overrun the user's quota in some circumstances - notably when a session keyring is created and assigned to a process that didn't previously have one. This means it's still possible to log in, should PAM require the creation of a new session keyring, and fix an overburdened key quota. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] m68knommu: make enable_irq() macro statementGreg Ungerer
Change enable_irq() macro to be a statement, not expression. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] m68knommu: fix ColdFire 5249 PLL setGreg Ungerer
Fix PLL setting for the Coldfire 5249 CPU. This brings it into line with the new style frequency configuration of m68knommu parts. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] m68knommu: ColdFire cache flush fixupsGreg Ungerer
Fix flush code for the ColdFire 5206/5206e/5272 cases. Add support for the new ColdFire 532x CPU family Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] m68knommu: force stack alignment on ColdFireGreg Ungerer
This patch solve a bug triggered by execvp (this function use calloc to store the argument list and gcc 3.4.x align the stack to word, not to dword). This situation aren't related to signal handling and all 2.6.x have the bug. On ColdFire targets we must force the stack to be aligned. Original patch from Andrea Tarani <andrea.tarani@gilbarco.com>, Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] m68knommu: configurable frequency selection headerGreg Ungerer
Remove list of fixed clock frequency options used for configuring master clock, and make field an int. Much more flexible this way, no need to add more options for every new used freqency. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25Revert "swsusp special saveable pages support" commitsLinus Torvalds
This reverts commits 3e3318dee0878d42ed62a19c292a2ac284135db3 [PATCH] swsusp: x86_64 mark special saveable/unsaveable pages b6370d96e09944c6e3ae8d5743ca8a8ab1f79f6c [PATCH] swsusp: i386 mark special saveable/unsaveable pages ce4ab0012b32c1a4a1d6e934aeb73bf3151c48d9 [PATCH] swsusp: add architecture special saveable pages support because not only do they apparently cause page faults on x86, the infrastructure doesn't compile on powerpc. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] m68knommu: add ColdFire 532x UART address supportGreg Ungerer
Add support for the UART addressing on the new Freescale M532x CPU family. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] m68knommu: include ColdFire 532x register definitionsGreg Ungerer
Include the ColdFire 532x support when including ColdFire peripharp support definitions. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] m68knommu: add ColdFire 532x cache initGreg Ungerer
Add cache init support for the new ColdFire 532x CPU family. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] m68knommu: ColdFire 532x register definitionsGreg Ungerer
Register definitions for the new Freescale 532x Coldfire CPU family. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] m68knommu: read/write register access for PIT timerGreg Ungerer
Modify the m68knommu/ColdFire PIT timer code to use register offsets with raw_read/raw_write access, instead of a mapped struct. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] m68knommu: read/write register access for ColdFire core timerGreg Ungerer
Modify the m68knommu/ColdFire core timer code to use register offsets with raw_read/raw_write access, instead of a mapped struct. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (51 commits) nfs: remove nfs_put_link() nfs-build-fix-99 git-nfs-build-fixes Merge branch 'odirect' NFS: alloc nfs_read/write_data as direct I/O is scheduled NFS: Eliminate nfs_get_user_pages() NFS: refactor nfs_direct_free_user_pages NFS: remove user_addr, user_count, and pos from nfs_direct_req NFS: "open code" the NFS direct write rescheduler NFS: Separate functions for counting outstanding NFS direct I/Os NLM: Fix reclaim races NLM: sem to mutex conversion locks.c: add the fl_owner to nlm_compare_locks NFS: Display the chosen RPCSEC_GSS security flavour in /proc/mounts NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c NFS: Fix typo in nfs_do_clone_mount() NFS: Fix compile errors introduced by referrals patches NFSv4: Ensure that referral mounts bind to a reserved port NFSv4: A root pathname is sent as a zero component4 NFSv4: Follow a referral ...
2006-06-25Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvbLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (244 commits) V4L/DVB (4210b): git-dvb: tea575x-tuner build fix V4L/DVB (4210a): git-dvb versus matroxfb V4L/DVB (4209): Added some BTTV PCI IDs for newer boards Fixes some sync issues between V4L/DVB development and GIT V4L/DVB (4206): Cx88-blackbird: always set encoder height based on tvnorm->id V4L/DVB (4205): Merge tda9887 module into tuner. V4L/DVB (4203): Explicitly set the enum values. V4L/DVB (4202): allow selecting CX2341x port mode V4L/DVB (4200): Disable bitrate_mode when encoding mpeg-1. V4L/DVB (4199): Add cx2341x-specific control array to cx2341x.c V4L/DVB (4198): Avoid newer usages of obsoleted experimental MPEGCOMP API V4L/DVB (4197): Port new MPEG API to saa7134-empress with saa6752hs V4L/DVB (4196): Port cx88-blackbird to the new MPEG API. V4L/DVB (4193): Update cx2341x fw encoding API doc. V4L/DVB (4192): Use control helpers for saa7115, cx25840, msp3400. V4L/DVB (4191): Add CX2341X MPEG encoder module. V4L/DVB (4190): Add helper functions for control processing to v4l2-common. V4L/DVB (4189): Add videodev support for VIDIOC_S/G/TRY_EXT_CTRLS. V4L/DVB (4188): Add new MPEG control/ioctl definitions to videodev2.h V4L/DVB (4186): Add support for the DNTV Live! mini DVB-T card. ...
2006-06-25[PATCH] Fix "biovec-(256)" in /proc/slabinfoAlexey Dobriyan
Stringify does what it was told to do. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] pacct: none-delayed process accounting accumulationKaiGai Kohei
In current 2.6.17 implementation, signal_struct refered from task_struct is used for per-process data structure. The pacct facility also uses it as a per-process data structure to store stime, utime, minflt, majflt. But those members are saved in __exit_signal(). It's too late. For example, if some threads exits at same time, pacct facility has a possibility to drop accountings for a part of those threads. (see, the following 'The results of original 2.6.17 kernel') I think accounting information should be completely collected into the per-process data structure before writing out an accounting record. This patch fixes this matter. Accumulation of stime, utime, minflt and majflt are done before generating accounting record. [mingo@elte.hu: fix acct_collect() siglock bug found by lockdep] Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] pacct: avoidance to refer the last thread as a representation of the ↵KaiGai Kohei
process When pacct facility generate an 'ac_flag' field in accounting record, it refers a task_struct of the thread which died last in the process. But any other task_structs are ignored. Therefore, pacct facility drops ASU flag even if root-privilege operations are used by any other threads except the last one. In addition, AFORK flag is always set when the thread of group-leader didn't die last, although this process has called execve() after fork(). We have a same matter in ac_exitcode. The recorded ac_exitcode is an exit code of the last thread in the process. There is a possibility this exitcode is not the group leader's one.
2006-06-25[PATCH] pacct: add pacct_struct to fix some pacct bugs.KaiGai Kohei
The pacct facility need an i/o operation when an accounting record is generated. There is a possibility to wake OOM killer up. If OOM killer is activated, it kills some processes to make them release process memory regions. But acct_process() is called in the killed processes context before calling exit_mm(), so those processes cannot release own memory. In the results, any processes stop in this point and it finally cause a system stall.
2006-06-25[PATCH] synclink_gt: add GT2 adapter supportPaul Fulghum
Add support for SyncLink GT2 adapter to driver. Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] add synclink_gt custom hdlc idlePaul Fulghum
Add custom HDLC idle pattern feature. It allows the user to specify an arbitrary 8 or 16 bit repeating pattern on the transmit data pin between HDLC frames. In most cases the idle pattern is continuous ones or flags as supported by off the shelf synchronous controllers and defined in the ISO3309 standard. Some applications (radio/satellite modems, connections to legacy military hardware) require non-standard patterns. Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] kthread: move kernel-doc and put it into DocBookRandy Dunlap
Move kthread API kernel-doc from kthread.h to kthread.c & fix it. Add kthread API to kernel-api DocBook. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] Implement kasprintfJeremy Fitzhardinge
Implement kasprintf, a kernel version of asprintf. This allocates the memory required for the formatted string, including the trailing '\0'. Returns NULL on allocation failure. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] ktime/hrtimer: fix kernel-doc commentsRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc formatting in ktime.h and hrtimer.[ch] files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] Implement AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW flag for linkatUlrich Drepper
When the linkat() syscall was added the flag parameter was added in the last minute but it wasn't used so far. The following patch should change that. My tests show that this is all that's needed. If OLDNAME is a symlink setting the flag causes linkat to follow the symlink and create a hardlink with the target. This is actually the behavior POSIX demands for link() as well but Linux wisely does not do this. With this flag (which will most likely be in the next POSIX revision) the programmer can choose the behavior, defaulting to the safe variant. As a side effect it is now possible to implement a POSIX-compliant link(2) function for those who are interested. touch file ln -s file symlink linkat(fd, "symlink", fd, "newlink", 0) -> newlink is hardlink of symlink linkat(fd, "symlink", fd, "newlink", AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW) -> newlink is hardlink of file The value of AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW is determined by the definition we already use in glibc. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] kthread: update loop.c to use kthreadSerge E. Hallyn
Update loop.c to use a kthread instead of a deprecated kernel_thread for loop devices. [akpm@osdl.org: don't change the thread's name] Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] fuse: add request interruptionMiklos Szeredi
Add synchronous request interruption. This is needed for file locking operations which have to be interruptible. However filesystem may implement interruptibility of other operations (e.g. like NFS 'intr' mount option). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] fuse: add POSIX file locking supportMiklos Szeredi
This patch adds POSIX file locking support to the fuse interface. This implementation doesn't keep any locking state in kernel. Unlocking on close() is handled by the FLUSH message, which now contains the lock owner id. Mandatory locking is not supported. The filesystem may enfoce mandatory locking in userspace if needed. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] fuse: use MISC_MAJORJan Engelhardt
The following patches add POSIX file locking to the fuse interface. Additional changes ralated to this are: - asynchronous interrupt of requests by SIGKILL no longer supported - separate control filesystem, instead of using sysfs objects - add support for synchronously interrupting requests Details are documented in Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt throughout the patches. This patch: Have fuse.h use MISC_MAJOR rather than a hardcoded '10'. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] N32 sigset and __COMPAT_ENDIAN_SWAP__akpm@osdl.org
I'm testing glibc on MIPS64, little-endian, N32, O32 and N64 multilibs. Among the NPTL test failures seen are some arising from sigsuspend problems for N32: it blocks the wrong signals, so SIGCANCEL (SIGRTMIN) is blocked despite glibc's carefully excluding it from sets of signals to block. Specifically, testing suggests it blocks signal N^32 instead of signal N, so (in the example tested) blocking SIGUSR1 (17) blocks signal 49 instead. glibc's sigset_t uses an array of unsigned long, as does the kernel. In both cases, signal N+1 is represented as (1UL << (N % (8 * sizeof (unsigned long)))) in word number (N / (8 * sizeof (unsigned long))). Thus the N32 glibc uses an array of 32-bit words and the N64 kernel uses an array of 64-bit words. For little-endian, the layout is the same, with signals 1-32 in the first 4 bytes, signals 33-64 in the second, etc.; for big-endian, userspace has that layout while in the kernel each 8 bytes have the two halves swapped from the userspace layout. The N32 sigsuspend syscall uses sigset_from_compat to convert the userspace sigset to kernel format. If __COMPAT_ENDIAN_SWAP__ is *not* set, this uses logic of the form set->sig[0] = compat->sig[0] | (((long)compat->sig[1]) << 32 ) to convert the userspace sigset to a kernel one. This looks correct to me for both big and little endian, given that in userspace compat->sig[1] will represent signals 33-64, and so will the high 32 bits of set->sig[0] in the kernel. If however __COMPAT_ENDIAN_SWAP__ *is* set, as it is for __MIPSEL__, it uses set->sig[0] = compat->sig[1] | (((long)compat->sig[0]) << 32 ); which seems incorrect for both big and little endian, and would explain the observed symptoms. This code is the only use of __COMPAT_ENDIAN_SWAP__, so if incorrect then that macro serves no purpose, in which case something like the following patch would seem appropriate to remove it. Signed-off-by: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] Get rid of /proc/sys/procStephen Hemminger
The table is empty, why does it still exist? Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] RTC: Add rtc_year_days() to calculate tm_ydayAndrew Victor
RTC: Add exported function rtc_year_days() to calculate the tm_yday value. Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] Add v3020 RTC supportRaphael Assenat
This patch adds support for the v3020 RTC from EM Microelectronic. The v3020 RTC is designed to be connected on a bus using only one data bit. Since any data bit may be used, it is necessary to specify this to the driver by passing a struct v3020_platform_data pointer (see include/linux/rtc-v3020.h) to the driver. Part of the following code comes from the kernel patchs produced by Compulab for their products. The original file (available here: http://raph.people.8d.com/misc/emv3020.c) was released under the terms of the GPL license. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Raphael Assenat <raph@raphnet.net> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] rtc subsystem: add capability checksAlessandro Zummo
Centralize CAP_SYS_XXX checks to avoid duplicate code and missing checks in the drivers. Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] RTC: rtc-dev UIE emulationAtsushi Nemoto
Import genrtc's RTC UIE emulation (CONFIG_GEN_RTC_X) to rtc-dev driver with slight adjustments/refinements. This makes UIE-less rtc drivers work better with programs doing read/poll on /dev/rtc, such as hwclock. This emulation should not harm rtc drivers with UIE support, since rtc_dev_ioctl() calls underlaying rtc driver's ioctl() first. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] epoll: use unlocked wqueue operationsDavide Libenzi
A few days ago Arjan signaled a lockdep red flag on epoll locks, and precisely between the epoll's device structure lock (->lock) and the wait queue head lock (->lock). Like I explained in another email, and directly to Arjan, this can't happen in reality because of the explicit check at eventpoll.c:592, that does not allow to drop an epoll fd inside the same epoll fd. Since lockdep is working on per-structure locks, it will never be able to know of policies enforced in other parts of the code. It was decided time ago of having the ability to drop epoll fds inside other epoll fds, that triggers a very trick wakeup operations (due to possibly reentrant callback-driven wakeups) handled by the ep_poll_safewake() function. While looking again at the code though, I noticed that all the operations done on the epoll's main structure wait queue head (->wq) are already protected by the epoll lock (->lock), so that locked-style functions can be used to manipulate the ->wq member. This makes both a lock-acquire save, and lockdep happy. Running totalmess on my dual opteron for a while did not reveal any problem so far: http://www.xmailserver.org/totalmess.c Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>