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<title>litmus-rt.git/arch/frv, branch v2.6.33.4</title>
<subtitle>The LITMUS^RT kernel.</subtitle>
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<title>FDPIC: Respect PT_GNU_STACK exec protection markings when creating NOMMU stack</title>
<updated>2010-01-07T02:16:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Frysinger</name>
<email>vapier@gentoo.org</email>
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<published>2010-01-06T17:23:17+00:00</published>
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The current code will load the stack size and protection markings, but
then only use the markings in the MMU code path.  The NOMMU code path
always passes PROT_EXEC to the mmap() call.  While this doesn't matter
to most people whilst the code is running, it will cause a pointless
icache flush when starting every FDPIC application.  Typically this
icache flush will be of a region on the order of 128KB in size, or may
be the entire icache, depending on the facilities available on the CPU.

In the case where the arch default behaviour seems to be desired
(EXSTACK_DEFAULT), we probe VM_STACK_FLAGS for VM_EXEC to determine
whether we should be setting PROT_EXEC or not.

For arches that support an MPU (Memory Protection Unit - an MMU without
the virtual mapping capability), setting PROT_EXEC or not will make an
important difference.

It should be noted that this change also affects the executability of
the brk region, since ELF-FDPIC has that share with the stack.  However,
this is probably irrelevant as NOMMU programs aren't likely to use the
brk region, preferring instead allocation via mmap().

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The current code will load the stack size and protection markings, but
then only use the markings in the MMU code path.  The NOMMU code path
always passes PROT_EXEC to the mmap() call.  While this doesn't matter
to most people whilst the code is running, it will cause a pointless
icache flush when starting every FDPIC application.  Typically this
icache flush will be of a region on the order of 128KB in size, or may
be the entire icache, depending on the facilities available on the CPU.

In the case where the arch default behaviour seems to be desired
(EXSTACK_DEFAULT), we probe VM_STACK_FLAGS for VM_EXEC to determine
whether we should be setting PROT_EXEC or not.

For arches that support an MPU (Memory Protection Unit - an MMU without
the virtual mapping capability), setting PROT_EXEC or not will make an
important difference.

It should be noted that this change also affects the executability of
the brk region, since ELF-FDPIC has that share with the stack.  However,
this is probably irrelevant as NOMMU programs aren't likely to use the
brk region, preferring instead allocation via mmap().

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2009-12-17T15:23:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-17T15:23:42+00:00</published>
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* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
  net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated
  gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning
  kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
  kbuild: generate modules.builtin
  genksyms: properly consider  EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
  score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper
  unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
  kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
  kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
  scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available
  scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable
  scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root
  Kbuild: clean up marker
  net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install
  kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
  kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
  drop explicit include of autoconf.h
  kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated
  kbuild: drop include/asm
  kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
  ...

Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from
Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h
that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)
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* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
  net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated
  gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning
  kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
  kbuild: generate modules.builtin
  genksyms: properly consider  EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
  score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper
  unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
  kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
  kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
  scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available
  scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable
  scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root
  Kbuild: clean up marker
  net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install
  kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
  kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
  drop explicit include of autoconf.h
  kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated
  kbuild: drop include/asm
  kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
  ...

Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from
Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h
that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)
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<entry>
<title>elf: kill USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP</title>
<updated>2009-12-16T15:20:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-16T00:47:37+00:00</published>
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Currently all architectures but microblaze unconditionally define
USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP.  The microblaze omission seems like an error to me, so
let's kill this ifdef and make sure we are the same everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@petalogix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently all architectures but microblaze unconditionally define
USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP.  The microblaze omission seems like an error to me, so
let's kill this ifdef and make sure we are the same everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@petalogix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>genirq: Convert irq_desc.lock to raw_spinlock</title>
<updated>2009-12-14T22:55:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-17T15:46:45+00:00</published>
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Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to
raw_spinlocks.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to
raw_spinlocks.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated</title>
<updated>2009-12-12T12:08:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-17T22:52:28+00:00</published>
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Fix up all users of utsrelease.h

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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Fix up all users of utsrelease.h

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: move asm-offsets.h to include/generated</title>
<updated>2009-12-12T12:08:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-19T20:35:10+00:00</published>
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The simplest method was to add an extra asm-offsets.h
file in arch/$ARCH/include/asm that references the generated file.

We can now migrate the architectures one-by-one to reference
the generated file direct - and when done we can delete the
temporary arch/$ARCH/include/asm/asm-offsets.h file.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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The simplest method was to add an extra asm-offsets.h
file in arch/$ARCH/include/asm that references the generated file.

We can now migrate the architectures one-by-one to reference
the generated file direct - and when done we can delete the
temporary arch/$ARCH/include/asm/asm-offsets.h file.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Unify sys_mmap*</title>
<updated>2009-12-11T11:44:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-30T22:37:04+00:00</published>
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New helper - sys_mmap_pgoff(); switch syscalls to using it.

Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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New helper - sys_mmap_pgoff(); switch syscalls to using it.

Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'bkl-arch-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2009-12-09T16:07:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-09T16:07:51+00:00</published>
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* 'bkl-arch-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  mn10300: Remove the BKL from sys_execve
  m68knommu: Remove the BKL from sys_execve
  m68k: Remove the BKL from sys_execve
  h83000: Remove BKL from sys_execve
  frv: Remove the BKL from sys_execve
  blackfin: Remove the BKL from sys_execve
  um: Remove BKL from mmapper
  um: Remove BKL from random
  s390: Remove BKL from prng
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* 'bkl-arch-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  mn10300: Remove the BKL from sys_execve
  m68knommu: Remove the BKL from sys_execve
  m68k: Remove the BKL from sys_execve
  h83000: Remove BKL from sys_execve
  frv: Remove the BKL from sys_execve
  blackfin: Remove the BKL from sys_execve
  um: Remove BKL from mmapper
  um: Remove BKL from random
  s390: Remove BKL from prng
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2009-12-08T16:19:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-08T16:19:16+00:00</published>
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* 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (113 commits)
  cfq-iosched: Do not access cfqq after freeing it
  block: include linux/err.h to use ERR_PTR
  cfq-iosched: use call_rcu() instead of doing grace period stall on queue exit
  blkio: Allow CFQ group IO scheduling even when CFQ is a module
  blkio: Implement dynamic io controlling policy registration
  blkio: Export some symbols from blkio as its user CFQ can be a module
  block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IO
  block: Fix io_context leak after clone with CLONE_IO
  cfq-iosched: make nonrot check logic consistent
  io controller: quick fix for blk-cgroup and modular CFQ
  cfq-iosched: move IO controller declerations to a header file
  cfq-iosched: fix compile problem with !CONFIG_CGROUP
  blkio: Documentation
  blkio: Wait on sync-noidle queue even if rq_noidle = 1
  blkio: Implement group_isolation tunable
  blkio: Determine async workload length based on total number of queues
  blkio: Wait for cfq queue to get backlogged if group is empty
  blkio: Propagate cgroup weight updation to cfq groups
  blkio: Drop the reference to queue once the task changes cgroup
  blkio: Provide some isolation between groups
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* 'for-2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (113 commits)
  cfq-iosched: Do not access cfqq after freeing it
  block: include linux/err.h to use ERR_PTR
  cfq-iosched: use call_rcu() instead of doing grace period stall on queue exit
  blkio: Allow CFQ group IO scheduling even when CFQ is a module
  blkio: Implement dynamic io controlling policy registration
  blkio: Export some symbols from blkio as its user CFQ can be a module
  block: Fix io_context leak after failure of clone with CLONE_IO
  block: Fix io_context leak after clone with CLONE_IO
  cfq-iosched: make nonrot check logic consistent
  io controller: quick fix for blk-cgroup and modular CFQ
  cfq-iosched: move IO controller declerations to a header file
  cfq-iosched: fix compile problem with !CONFIG_CGROUP
  blkio: Documentation
  blkio: Wait on sync-noidle queue even if rq_noidle = 1
  blkio: Implement group_isolation tunable
  blkio: Determine async workload length based on total number of queues
  blkio: Wait for cfq queue to get backlogged if group is empty
  blkio: Propagate cgroup weight updation to cfq groups
  blkio: Drop the reference to queue once the task changes cgroup
  blkio: Provide some isolation between groups
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-12-08T15:55:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-08T15:55:01+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1815 commits)
  mac80211: fix reorder buffer release
  iwmc3200wifi: Enable wimax core through module parameter
  iwmc3200wifi: Add wifi-wimax coexistence mode as a module parameter
  iwmc3200wifi: Coex table command does not expect a response
  iwmc3200wifi: Update wiwi priority table
  iwlwifi: driver version track kernel version
  iwlwifi: indicate uCode type when fail dump error/event log
  iwl3945: remove duplicated event logging code
  b43: fix two warnings
  ipw2100: fix rebooting hang with driver loaded
  cfg80211: indent regulatory messages with spaces
  iwmc3200wifi: fix NULL pointer dereference in pmkid update
  mac80211: Fix TX status reporting for injected data frames
  ath9k: enable 2GHz band only if the device supports it
  airo: Fix integer overflow warning
  rt2x00: Fix padding bug on L2PAD devices.
  WE: Fix set events not propagated
  b43legacy: avoid PPC fault during resume
  b43: avoid PPC fault during resume
  tcp: fix a timewait refcnt race
  ...

Fix up conflicts due to sysctl cleanups (dead sysctl_check code and
CTL_UNNUMBERED removed) in
	kernel/sysctl_check.c
	net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
	net/ipv6/addrconf.c
	net/sctp/sysctl.c
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1815 commits)
  mac80211: fix reorder buffer release
  iwmc3200wifi: Enable wimax core through module parameter
  iwmc3200wifi: Add wifi-wimax coexistence mode as a module parameter
  iwmc3200wifi: Coex table command does not expect a response
  iwmc3200wifi: Update wiwi priority table
  iwlwifi: driver version track kernel version
  iwlwifi: indicate uCode type when fail dump error/event log
  iwl3945: remove duplicated event logging code
  b43: fix two warnings
  ipw2100: fix rebooting hang with driver loaded
  cfg80211: indent regulatory messages with spaces
  iwmc3200wifi: fix NULL pointer dereference in pmkid update
  mac80211: Fix TX status reporting for injected data frames
  ath9k: enable 2GHz band only if the device supports it
  airo: Fix integer overflow warning
  rt2x00: Fix padding bug on L2PAD devices.
  WE: Fix set events not propagated
  b43legacy: avoid PPC fault during resume
  b43: avoid PPC fault during resume
  tcp: fix a timewait refcnt race
  ...

Fix up conflicts due to sysctl cleanups (dead sysctl_check code and
CTL_UNNUMBERED removed) in
	kernel/sysctl_check.c
	net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
	net/ipv6/addrconf.c
	net/sctp/sysctl.c
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