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  3. Jul 19, 2007
    • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
      fix spufs build after ->fault changes · 80422977
      Christoph Hellwig authored 
      

83c54070 broke spufs by incorrectly
updating the code, this patch gets it to compile again.

It's probably still broken due to the scheduler changes, but this
at least makes sure cell kernels can still be built.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: default avatarGeoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      80422977
    • Yoann Padioleau's avatar
      some kmalloc/memset ->kzalloc (tree wide) · dd00cc48
      Yoann Padioleau authored 
      

Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).

Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:

@@
type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
@@

 x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
  (E1,E2)
  ...  when != \(x->fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);

@@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@

- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: default avatarYoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Acked-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Acked-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: default avatarGreg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dd00cc48
    • Roland McGrath's avatar
      powerpc: Put allocated ELF notes in read-only data segment · 8fb775ee
      Roland McGrath authored 
      

This changes the powerpc linker script to use the asm-generic NOTES macro so
that ELF note sections with SHF_ALLOC set are linked into the kernel image
along with other read-only data.  The PT_NOTE also points to their location.

This paves the way for putting useful build-time information into ELF notes
that can be found easily later in a kernel memory dump.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8fb775ee
    • Fenghua Yu's avatar
      define new percpu interface for shared data · 5fb7dc37
      Fenghua Yu authored 
      

per cpu data section contains two types of data.  One set which is
exclusively accessed by the local cpu and the other set which is per cpu,
but also shared by remote cpus.  In the current kernel, these two sets are
not clearely separated out.  This can potentially cause the same data
cacheline shared between the two sets of data, which will result in
unnecessary bouncing of the cacheline between cpus.

One way to fix the problem is to cacheline align the remotely accessed per
cpu data, both at the beginning and at the end.  Because of the padding at
both ends, this will likely cause some memory wastage and also the
interface to achieve this is not clean.

This patch:

Moves the remotely accessed per cpu data (which is currently marked
as ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp) into a different section, where all the data
elements are cacheline aligned. And as such, this differentiates the local
only data and remotely accessed data cleanly.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5fb7dc37
    • Michael Ellerman's avatar
      jprobes: make jprobes a little safer for users · 3d7e3382
      Michael Ellerman authored 
      

I realise jprobes are a razor-blades-included type of interface, but that
doesn't mean we can't try and make them safer to use.  This guy I know once
wrote code like this:

struct jprobe jp = { .kp.symbol_name = "foo", .entry = "jprobe_foo" };

And then his kernel exploded. Oops.

This patch adds an arch hook, arch_deref_entry_point() (I don't like it
either) which takes the void * in a struct jprobe, and gives back the text
address that it represents.

We can then use that in register_jprobe() to check that the entry point we're
passed is actually in the kernel text, rather than just some random value.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3d7e3382
    • Nicholas Piggin's avatar
      mm: fault feedback #2 · 83c54070
      Nicholas Piggin authored 
      

This patch completes Linus's wish that the fault return codes be made into
bit flags, which I agree makes everything nicer.  This requires requires
all handle_mm_fault callers to be modified (possibly the modifications
should go further and do things like fault accounting in handle_mm_fault --
however that would be for another patch).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s390 build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64 build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 build]
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Acked-by: default avatarKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: default avatarHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Still apparently needs some ARM and PPC loving - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      83c54070
  5. Jul 18, 2007
    • Andy Fleming's avatar
      Fix RGMII-ID handling in gianfar · 7132ab7f
      Andy Fleming authored 
      

The TSEC/eTSEC can detect the interface to the PHY automatically,
but it isn't able to detect whether the RGMII connection needs internal
delay.  So we need to detect that change in the device tree, propagate
it to the platform data, and then check it if we're in RGMII.  This fixes
a bug on the 8641D HPCN board where the Vitesse PHY doesn't use the delay
for RGMII.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
      7132ab7f
    • Andy Fleming's avatar
      Add phy-connection-type to gianfar nodes · cc65185d
      Andy Fleming authored 
      

The TSEC/eTSEC automatically detect their PHY interface type, unless
the type is RGMII-ID (RGMII with internal delay).  In that situation,
it just detects RGMII.  In order to fix this, we need to pass in rgmii-id
if that is the connection type.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
      cc65185d
    • Tony Breeds's avatar
      Revert "[POWERPC] Do firmware feature fixups after features are initialised" · 826ea8f2
      Tony Breeds authored 
      

This reverts commit 5a26f6bb.

The original patch causes boot failures when built with ppc64_defconfig.  The
quickest fix is to revert it while alterates are investigated.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      826ea8f2
    • Tony Breeds's avatar
      Fix compile failure in arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c · 4f3731da
      Tony Breeds authored 
      

This fixes the fallout from the recent powerpc merge (commit
489de302):

   CC      arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.o
  arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c:160: error: conflicting types for 'pcibios_add_platform_entries'
  include/linux/pci.h:889: error: previous declaration of 'pcibios_add_platform_entries' was here

Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Tested-by: default avatarBret Towe <magnade@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4f3731da
    • Amit Arora's avatar
      sys_fallocate() implementation on i386, x86_64 and powerpc · 97ac7350
      Amit Arora authored 
      

fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow
applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system.
Each file system implementation that wants to use this feature will need
to support an inode operation called ->fallocate().
Applications can use this feature to avoid fragmentation to certain
level and thus get faster access speed. With preallocation, applications
also get a guarantee of space for particular file(s) - even if later the
the system becomes full.

Currently, glibc provides an interface called posix_fallocate() which
can be used for similar cause. Though this has the advantage of working
on all file systems, but it is quite slow (since it writes zeroes to
each block that has to be preallocated). Without a doubt, file systems
can do this more efficiently within the kernel, by implementing
the proposed fallocate() system call. It is expected that
posix_fallocate() will be modified to call this new system call first
and incase the kernel/filesystem does not implement it, it should fall
back to the current implementation of writing zeroes to the new blocks.
ToDos:
1. Implementation on other architectures (other than i386, x86_64,
   and ppc). Patches for s390(x) and ia64 are already available from
   previous posts, but it was decided that they should be added later
   once fallocate is in the mainline. Hence not including those patches
   in this take.
2. Changes to glibc,
   a) to support fallocate() system call
   b) to make posix_fallocate() and posix_fallocate64() call fallocate()

Signed-off-by: default avatarAmit Arora <aarora@in.ibm.com>
      97ac7350
  7. Jul 17, 2007