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* [PATCH] kbuild: display compile versionCoywolf Qi Hunt2005-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | I am always trying to make sure I've booted the right kernel after a new install. Too paranoid maybe. But I guess there're other people like me. So let's make kbuild display the compile version number at the end to give us a hint. I know we may be booting vmlinux someday, but don't care about it for now. Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: remove PG_highmemBadari Pulavarty2005-06-21
| | | | | | | | | Remove PG_highmem, to save a page flag. Use is_highmem() instead. It'll generate a little more code, but we don't use PageHigheMem() in many places. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Avoiding mmap fragmentationWolfgang Wander2005-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ingo recently introduced a great speedup for allocating new mmaps using the free_area_cache pointer which boosts the specweb SSL benchmark by 4-5% and causes huge performance increases in thread creation. The downside of this patch is that it does lead to fragmentation in the mmap-ed areas (visible via /proc/self/maps), such that some applications that work fine under 2.4 kernels quickly run out of memory on any 2.6 kernel. The problem is twofold: 1) the free_area_cache is used to continue a search for memory where the last search ended. Before the change new areas were always searched from the base address on. So now new small areas are cluttering holes of all sizes throughout the whole mmap-able region whereas before small holes tended to close holes near the base leaving holes far from the base large and available for larger requests. 2) the free_area_cache also is set to the location of the last munmap-ed area so in scenarios where we allocate e.g. five regions of 1K each, then free regions 4 2 3 in this order the next request for 1K will be placed in the position of the old region 3, whereas before we appended it to the still active region 1, placing it at the location of the old region 2. Before we had 1 free region of 2K, now we only get two free regions of 1K -> fragmentation. The patch addresses thes issues by introducing yet another cache descriptor cached_hole_size that contains the largest known hole size below the current free_area_cache. If a new request comes in the size is compared against the cached_hole_size and if the request can be filled with a hole below free_area_cache the search is started from the base instead. The results look promising: Whereas 2.6.12-rc4 fragments quickly and my (earlier posted) leakme.c test program terminates after 50000+ iterations with 96 distinct and fragmented maps in /proc/self/maps it performs nicely (as expected) with thread creation, Ingo's test_str02 with 20000 threads requires 0.7s system time. Taking out Ingo's patch (un-patch available per request) by basically deleting all mentions of free_area_cache from the kernel and starting the search for new memory always at the respective bases we observe: leakme terminates successfully with 11 distinctive hardly fragmented areas in /proc/self/maps but thread creating is gringdingly slow: 30+s(!) system time for Ingo's test_str02 with 20000 threads. Now - drumroll ;-) the appended patch works fine with leakme: it ends with only 7 distinct areas in /proc/self/maps and also thread creation seems sufficiently fast with 0.71s for 20000 threads. Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Wander <wwc@rentec.com> Credit-to: "Richard Purdie" <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (partly) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Hugepage consolidationDavid Gibson2005-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A lot of the code in arch/*/mm/hugetlbpage.c is quite similar. This patch attempts to consolidate a lot of the code across the arch's, putting the combined version in mm/hugetlb.c. There are a couple of uglyish hacks in order to covert all the hugepage archs, but the result is a very large reduction in the total amount of code. It also means things like hugepage lazy allocation could be implemented in one place, instead of six. Tested, at least a little, on ppc64, i386 and x86_64. Notes: - this patch changes the meaning of set_huge_pte() to be more analagous to set_pte() - does SH4 need s special huge_ptep_get_and_clear()?? Acked-by: William Lee Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] VM: early zone reclaimMartin Hicks2005-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the core of the (much simplified) early reclaim. The goal of this patch is to reclaim some easily-freed pages from a zone before falling back onto another zone. One of the major uses of this is NUMA machines. With the default allocator behavior the allocator would look for memory in another zone, which might be off-node, before trying to reclaim from the current zone. This adds a zone tuneable to enable early zone reclaim. It is selected on a per-zone basis and is turned on/off via syscall. Adding some extra throttling on the reclaim was also required (patch 4/4). Without the machine would grind to a crawl when doing a "make -j" kernel build. Even with this patch the System Time is higher on average, but it seems tolerable. Here are some numbers for kernbench runs on a 2-node, 4cpu, 8Gig RAM Altix in the "make -j" run: wall user sys %cpu ctx sw. sleeps ---- ---- --- ---- ------ ------ No patch 1009 1384 847 258 298170 504402 w/patch, no reclaim 880 1376 667 288 254064 396745 w/patch & reclaim 1079 1385 926 252 291625 548873 These numbers are the average of 2 runs of 3 "make -j" runs done right after system boot. Run-to-run variability for "make -j" is huge, so these numbers aren't terribly useful except to seee that with reclaim the benchmark still finishes in a reasonable amount of time. I also looked at the NUMA hit/miss stats for the "make -j" runs and the reclaim doesn't make any difference when the machine is thrashing away. Doing a "make -j8" on a single node that is filled with page cache pages takes 700 seconds with reclaim turned on and 735 seconds without reclaim (due to remote memory accesses). The simple zone_reclaim syscall program is at http://www.bork.org/~mort/sgi/zone_reclaim.c Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] smp_processor_id() cleanupIngo Molnar2005-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements a number of smp_processor_id() cleanup ideas that Arjan van de Ven and I came up with. The previous __smp_processor_id/_smp_processor_id/smp_processor_id API spaghetti was hard to follow both on the implementational and on the usage side. Some of the complexity arose from picking wrong names, some of the complexity comes from the fact that not all architectures defined __smp_processor_id. In the new code, there are two externally visible symbols: - smp_processor_id(): debug variant. - raw_smp_processor_id(): nondebug variant. Replaces all existing uses of _smp_processor_id() and __smp_processor_id(). Defined by every SMP architecture in include/asm-*/smp.h. There is one new internal symbol, dependent on DEBUG_PREEMPT: - debug_smp_processor_id(): internal debug variant, mapped to smp_processor_id(). Also, i moved debug_smp_processor_id() from lib/kernel_lock.c into a new lib/smp_processor_id.c file. All related comments got updated and/or clarified. I have build/boot tested the following 8 .config combinations on x86: {SMP,UP} x {PREEMPT,!PREEMPT} x {DEBUG_PREEMPT,!DEBUG_PREEMPT} I have also build/boot tested x64 on UP/PREEMPT/DEBUG_PREEMPT. (Other architectures are untested, but should work just fine.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] class: convert arch/* to use the new class api instead of class_simplegregkh@suse.de2005-06-20
| | | | Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] apm.c: ignore_normal_resume is set a bit too lateThomas Hood2005-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch causes the ignore_normal_resume flag to be set slightly earlier, before there is a chance that the apm driver will receive the normal resume event from the BIOS. (Addresses Debian bug #310865) Signed-off-by: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Stop arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.o being rebuilt every timeKeith Owens2005-06-08
| | | | | | | | | | | arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.o is not listed as a target so its .cmd file is neither considered as a target nor is it read on the next build. This causes vsyscall-note.o to be rebuilt every time that you run make, which causes vmlinux to be rebuilt every time. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [CPUFREQ] Typos.Dave Jones2005-05-31
| | | | | | | cpfureq developers cant spel. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* [CPUFREQ] longhaul - adjust transition latency.Dave Jones2005-05-31
| | | | | | From patch by: Ken Staton <ken_staton@agilent.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* [CPUFREQ] Longhaul: Magic timer frobbing.Dave Jones2005-05-31
| | | | | | | | As mandated by the spec, disable timer around transitions. From code by : Ken Staton <ken_staton@agilent.com Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* [CPUFREQ] longhaul - disable PCI mastering around transition.Dave Jones2005-05-31
| | | | | | | | The spec states that we have to do this, which is *horrid*. Based on code from: Ken Staton <ken_staton@agilent.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* [CPUFREQ] dual-core powernow-k8Dave Jones2005-05-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | With the release of the dual-core AMD Opterons last week, it's high time that cpufreq supported them. The attached patch applies cleanly to 2.6.12-rc3 and updates powernow-k8 to support the latest Athlon 64 and Opteron processors. Update the driver to version 1.40.0 and provide support for dual-core processors. Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* [CPUFREQ] Recalibrate cpu_khz [2/2]Dave Jones2005-05-31
| | | | | | | | | | Some cpufreq drivers (at that time, only powernow-k7) need to recalibrate the cpu_khz at runtime. Signed-off-by: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* [CPUFREQ] Recalibrate cpu_khz [1/2]Dave Jones2005-05-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have to recalibrate cpu_khz in order to use the current FID instead the max FID since some BIOS do not put the processor at maximum frequency at POST. Also, some BIOS will change the processor frequency at our back after cpu_khz was calibrate. Finally, this will fix a long standing bug when we do something like this: # rmmod powernow-k7 # modprobe powernow-k7 Signed-off-by: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* [CPUFREQ] AMD Elan SC520 cpufreq driver.Dave Jones2005-05-31
| | | | | | From: Sean Young <sean@mess.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* [CPUFREQ] speedstep-smi: it works on at least one P4MDave Jones2005-05-31
| | | | | | | | | | The speedstep-smi driver actually works on >=1 notebook with a Pentium 4-M CPU where all other cpufreq drivers fail. Therefore, allow speedstep-smi on P4Ms again, but warn users of likely failure Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* [CPUFREQ] speedstep-centrino: Pentium 4 - M (HT) supportDave Jones2005-05-31
| | | | | | | | | | The Pentium 4 - Ms (HT) with CPUID 0xF34 and 0xF41 seem to support centrino-like enhanced speedstep; however, no "table" support is possible. Therefore, put NULL entries into speedstep-centrino.c Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* [CPUFREQ] powernow-k7: don't print khz element of FSB.Dave Jones2005-05-31
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* [PATCH] acpi build fix: x86 setup.cAlexander Nyberg2005-05-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a neverending story linux/acpi.h contains empty declarations for acpi_boot_init() & acpi_boot_table_init() but they are nested inside #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI. So we'll have to #ifdef in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c: setup_arch() Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: fix smp_num_siblings on buggy BIOSesSiddha, Suresh B2005-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes 'smp_num_siblings' value on the systems with a buggy bios, which sets number of siblings to '2' even when HT is disabled. (more details are at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4359) I am planning to do more cleanup in this area (like moving smp_num_siblings to per cpuinfo) shortly. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c: section fixAdrian Bunk2005-05-28
| | | | | | | | | num_cache_leaves is used in __devexit cache_remove_dev() and can therefore not be __devinit. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Note on ACPI build fixAlexander Nyberg2005-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Even after the previous fix you can still set CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT indirectly even without CONFIG_ACPI by choosing CONFIG_PCI and CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG. That doesn't build very well either. This makes PCI_MMCONFIG depend on ACPI, fixing that hole. [ I guess in theory Kconfig could follow the whole chain of dependencies for things that get selected, but that sounds insanely complicated, so we'll just fix up these things by hand. --Linus ] Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] VIA IRQ quirkLen Brown2005-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | Delete quirk_via_bridge(), restore quirk_via_irqpic() -- but now improved to be invoked upon device ENABLE, and now only for VIA devices -- not all devices behind VIA bridges. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] voyager_smp.c static inline fixDominik Hackl2005-05-24
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a compile bug by moving a static inline function to the right place. The body of a static inline function has to be declared before the use of this function. Signed-off-by: Dominik Hackl <dominik@hackl.dhs.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86_64: i386/x86-64: Export cpu_core_mapAndi Kleen2005-05-20
| | | | | | | | | Needed for the powernow k8 driver for dual core support. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: <mark.langsdorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] i386: Fix race in iounmapAndi Kleen2005-05-20
| | | | | | | | | | | We need to hold the vmlist_lock while doing change_page_attr, otherwise we could reset someone else's mapping. Requires previous patch to add __remove_vm_area Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86_64: 386/x86-64 Further AMD dual core fixesAndi Kleen2005-05-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | - Remove duplicated ifdef - Make core_id match what Intel uses - Initialize phys_proc_id correctly for non DC case - Handle non power of two core numbers. Fixes for both i386 and x86-64 Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix memory scribble in arch/i386/pci/fixup.cChristoph Lameter2005-05-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | The GET_INDEX() macro should use just the low three bits of the devfn, otherwise we have a memory scribble in pcie_rootport_aspm_quirk that overwrites ptype_all Fix it to be more careful about its arguments while at it. Acked by Dely Sy <dely.l.sy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86_64/i386: fix defaults for physical/core id in /proc/cpuinfoAndi Kleen2005-05-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Last round hopefully of cpu_core_id changes hopefully fow now: - Always initialize cpu_core_id for all CPUs, even when no dual core setup is detected. This prevents funny /proc/cpuinfo output - Do the same with phys_proc_id[] even when no HyperThreading - dito. - Use the CPU APIC-ID from CPUID 1 instead of the linux virtual CPU number to identify the core for AMD dual core setups. Patch for i386/x86-64. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Fix acpi_find_rsdp() - acpi_scan_rsdp takes length, not endLinus Torvalds2005-05-06
| | | | Noticed by Jakub Jermar <jermar@itbs.cz>
* [PATCH] x86: geode support fixesKianusch Sayah Karadji2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | - Changed Name/defines from "Geode GX" to "Geode GX1" for clarification - Dropped "-march=i586" in favor of "-march=i486" - Dopped X86_OOSTORE support for Geode GX1 Signed-off-by: Kianusch Sayah Karadji <kianusch@sk-tech.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] CodingStyle: trivial whitespace fixupsDomen Puncer2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When I do a "diff -Nur arch/i386 arch/x86_64" to see what is different between these two architectures, I see some differences due to whitespace issues only. The attached patch removes some of the noise by fixing up the following files: - arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S - arch/i386/boot/video.S - arch/x86_64/boot/bootsect.S Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman <didickman@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cyrix: eliminate bad section referencesmaximilian attems2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix cyrix section references: convert __initdata to __devinitdata. Error: ./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cyrix.o .text refers to 00000379 R_386_32 .init.data Error: ./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cyrix.o .text refers to 00000399 R_386_32 .init.data Error: ./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cyrix.o .text refers to 000003b3 R_386_32 .init.data Error: ./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cyrix.o .text refers to 000003b9 R_386_32 .init.data Error: ./arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cyrix.o .text refers to 000003bf R_386_32 .init.data Signed-of-by: maximilian attems <janitor@sternwelten.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Kprobes: Incorrect handling of probes on ret/lret instructionPrasanna S Panchamukhi2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Kprobes could not handle the insertion of a probe on the ret/lret instruction and used to oops after single stepping since kprobes was modifying eip/rip incorrectly. Adjustment of eip/rip is not required after single stepping in case of ret/lret instruction, because eip/rip points to the correct location after execution of the ret/lret instruction. This patch fixes the above problem. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86_64: make string func definition work as intendedPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In include/asm-x86_64/string.h there are such comments: /* Use C out of line version for memcmp */ #define memcmp __builtin_memcmp int memcmp(const void * cs,const void * ct,size_t count); This would mean that if the compiler does not decide to use __builtin_memcmp, it emits a call to memcmp to be satisfied by the C out-of-line version in lib/string.c. What happens is that after preprocessing, in lib/string.i you may find the definition of "__builtin_strcmp". Actually, by accident, in the object you will find the definition of strcmp and such (maybe a trick intended to redirect calls to __builtin_memcmp to the default memcmp when the definition is not expanded); however, this particular case is not a documented feature as far as I can see. Also, the EXPORT_SYMBOL does not work, so it's duplicated in the arch. I simply added some #undef to lib/string.c and removed the (now duplicated) exports in x86-64 and UML/x86_64 subarchs (the second ones are introduced by another patch I just posted for -mm). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86 stack initialisation fixAlexander Nyberg2005-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The recent change fix-crash-in-entrys-restore_all.patch childregs->esp = esp; p->thread.esp = (unsigned long) childregs; - p->thread.esp0 = (unsigned long) (childregs+1); + p->thread.esp0 = (unsigned long) (childregs+1) - 8; p->thread.eip = (unsigned long) ret_from_fork; introduces an inconsistency between esp and esp0 before the task is run the first time. esp0 is no longer the actual start of the stack, but 8 bytes off. This shows itself clearly in a scenario when a ptracer that is set to also ptrace eventual children traces program1 which then clones thread1. Now the ptracer wants to modify the registers of thread1. The x86 ptrace implementation bases it's knowledge about saved user-space registers upon p->thread.esp0. But this will be a few bytes off causing certain writes to the kernel stack to overwrite a saved kernel function address making the kernel when actually running thread1 jump out into user-space. Very spectacular. The testcase I've used is: /* start with strace -f ./a.out */ #include <pthread.h> #include <stdio.h> void *do_thread(void *p) { for (;;); } int main() { pthread_t one; pthread_create(&one, NULL, &do_thread, NULL); for (;;); return 0; } So, my solution is to instead of just adjusting esp0 that creates an inconsitent state I adjust where the user-space registers are saved with -8 bytes. This gives us the wanted extra bytes on the start of the stack and esp0 is now correct. This solves the issues I saw from the original testcase from Mateusz Berezecki and has survived testing here. I think this should go into -mm a round or two first however as there might be some cruft around depending on pt_regs lying on the start of the stack. That however would have broken with the first change too! It's actually a 2-line diff but I had to move the comment of why the -8 bytes are there a few lines up. Thanks to Zwane for helping me with this. Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitDavid Woodhouse2005-05-05
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| * [PATCH] ISA DMA Kconfig fixes - part 1Al Viro2005-05-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A bunch of drivers use ISA DMA helpers or their equivalents for platforms that have ISA with different DMA controller (a lot of ARM boxen). Currently there is no way to put such dependency in Kconfig - CONFIG_ISA is not it (e.g. it is not set on platforms that have no ISA slots, but have on-board devices that pretend to be ISA ones). New symbol added - ISA_DMA_API. Set when we have functional enable_dma()/set_dma_mode()/etc. set of helpers. Next patches in the series will add missing dependencies for drivers that need them. I'm very carefully staying the hell out of the recurring flamefest on what exactly CONFIG_ISA would mean in ideal world - added symbol has a well-defined meaning and for now I really want to treat it as completely independent from the mess around CONFIG_ISA. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitDavid Woodhouse2005-05-03
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| * [PATCH] make lots of things staticAdrian Bunk2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Another large rollup of various patches from Adrian which make things static where they were needlessly exported. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] fbdev: edid.h cleanupsAdrian Bunk2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes some completely unused code. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] convert that currently tests _NSIG directly to use valid_signal()Jesper Juhl2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert most of the current code that uses _NSIG directly to instead use valid_signal(). This avoids gcc -W warnings and off-by-one errors. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] misc verify_area cleanupsJesper Juhl2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There were still a few comments left refering to verify_area, and two functions, verify_area_skas & verify_area_tt that just wrap corresponding access_ok_skas & access_ok_tt functions, just like verify_area does for access_ok - deprecate those. There was also a few places that still used verify_area in commented-out code, fix those up to use access_ok. After applying this one there should not be anything left but finally removing verify_area completely, which will happen after a kernel release or two. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] Change synchronize_kernel to _rcu and _schedPaul E. McKenney2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes calls to synchronize_kernel(), deprecated in the earlier "Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement" patch to instead call the new synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched() APIs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] clean up kernel messagesMatt Mackall2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Arrange for all kernel printks to be no-ops. Only available if CONFIG_EMBEDDED. This patch saves about 375k on my laptop config and nearly 100k on minimal configs. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] uml: fix syscall table by including $(SUBARCH)'s one, for i386Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Split the i386 entry.S files into entry.S and syscall_table.S which is included in the previous one (so actually there is no difference between them) and use the syscall_table.S in the UML build, instead of tracking by hand the syscall table changes (which is inherently error-prone). We must only insert the right #defines to inject the changes we need from the i386 syscall table (for instance some different function names); also, we don't implement some i386 syscalls, as ioperm(), nor some TLS-related ones (yet to provide). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] Linux 2.6.x VM86 interrupt emulation fixesPavel Pisa2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch solves VM86 interrupt emulation deadlock on SMP systems. The VM86 interrupt emulation has been heavily tested and works well on UP systems after last update, but it seems to deadlock when we have used it on SMP/HT boxes now. It seems, that disable_irq() cannot be called from interrupts, because it waits until disabled interrupt handler finishes (/kernel/irq/manage.c:synchronize_irq():while(IRQ_INPROGRESS);). This blocks one CPU after another. Solved by use disable_irq_nosync. There is the second problem. If IRQ source is fast, it is possible, that interrupt is sometimes processed and re-enabled by the second CPU, before it is disabled by the first one, but negative IRQ disable depths are not allowed. The spinlocking and disabling IRQs over call to disable_irq_nosync/enable_irq is the only solution found reliable till now. Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@control.felk.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] Increase number of e820 entries hard limit from 32 to 128Venkatesh Pallipadi2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The specifications that talk about E820 map doesn't have an upper limit on the number of e820 entries. But, today's kernel has a hard limit of 32. With increase in memory size, we are seeing the number of E820 entries reaching close to 32. Patch below bumps the number upto 128. The patch changes the location of EDDBUF in zero-page (as it comes after E820). As, EDDBUF is not used by boot loaders, this patch should not have any effect on bootloader-setup code interface. Patch covers both i386 and x86-64. Tested on: * grub booting bzImage * lilo booting bzImage with EDID info enabled * pxeboot of bzImage Side-effect: bss increases by ~ 2K and init.data increases by ~7.5K on all systems, due to increase in size of static arrays. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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