litmus-rt.git/arch/mips/kernel, branch 2010.2

MIPS: N32: Use compat version for sys_ppoll.

2010-05-15T20:59:53+00:00

    
    The sys_ppoll() takes struct 'struct timespec'. This is different for the
    N32 and N64 ABIs. Use the compat version to do the proper conversions.
    
    Signed-off-by: David Daney 
    To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
    Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1210/
    Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 

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MIPS: Use CKSEG1ADDR for uncached handler

2010-04-30T19:52:48+00:00

"MIPS: Calculate proper ebase value for 64-bit kernels"
9af43ea080dd5d6c7b34f38261780e5dd43537bc (lmo) rsp.
f6be75d03c8870be91e6e2a195648ece04b6bb16 (kernel.org) broke some 64-bit
MIPS systems.

Before this we were using XKPHYS/cached as ebase and computed the uncached
xphsys/unchached address for that area. After that commit ebase became a
32-bit compat address and convert does not work anymore.  We now should use
CKSEG1 for this. CKSEG1ADDR does just that in 32-bit and 64-bit.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
To: Ralf Baechle 
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1149/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: die() does not call die notifier chain

2010-04-30T19:52:45+00:00

The MIPS implementation of die() forgets to call notify_die() and thus notifiers
registered via register_die_notifier() are not called.  This results in kgdb not
being activated on exceptions.

The only subtlety is that notify_die declares its regs argument w/o const, so
the const had to be removed from mips die() as well.

[Ralf: Fixed build error for SGI IP22 and IP28 platforms.]

Signed-off-by: Yury Polyanskiy 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchworks: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1142/
Acked-by: Jason Wessel 
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 

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MIPS: Calculate proper ebase value for 64-bit kernels

2010-04-12T16:26:22+00:00

The ebase is relative to CKSEG0 not CAC_BASE.  On a 32-bit kernel they
are the same thing, for a 64-bit kernel they are not.

It happens to kind of work on a 64-bit kernel as they both reference
the same physical memory.  However since the CPU uses the CKSEG0 base,
determining if a J instruction will reach always gives the wrong result
unless we use the same number the CPU uses.

Signed-off-by: David Daney 
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1093/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Move signal trampolines off of the stack.

2010-04-12T16:26:15+00:00

This is a follow on to the vdso patch.

Since all processes now have signal trampolines permanently mapped, we
can use those instead of putting the trampoline on the stack and
invalidating the corresponding icache across all CPUs.  We also get rid
of a bunch of ICACHE_REFILLS_WORKAROUND_WAR code.

[Ralf: GDB 7.1 which has the necessary modifications to allow backtracing
over signal frames will supposedly be released tomorrow.  The old signal
frame format obsoleted by this patch exists in two variations, for sane
processors and for those requiring ICACHE_REFILLS_WORKAROUND_WAR.  So
there was never a GDB which did support backtracing over signal frames
on all MIPS systems.  This convinved me this series should be applied and
pushed upstream as soon as possible.]

Signed-off-by: David Daney 
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/974/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Preliminary VDSO

2010-04-12T16:26:14+00:00

This is a preliminary patch to add a vdso to all user processes.  Still
missing are ELF headers and .eh_frame information.  But it is enough to
allow us to move signal trampolines off of the stack.  Note that emulation
of branch delay slots in the FPU emulator still requires the stack.

We allocate a single page (the vdso) and write all possible signal
trampolines into it.  The stack is moved down by one page and the vdso is
mapped into this space.

Signed-off-by: David Daney 
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/975/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Loongson: Add module info to the loongson2_clock driver

2010-04-12T16:26:12+00:00

This patch fixes a kernel warning when loading the the loongson2_clock
driver:

"Feb 25 23:42:27 localhost kernel: [    4.965000] loongson2_clock: module
license 'unspecified' taints kernel."

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin 
Reported-by: Liu Shiwei 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1045/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Initialize an atomic_t properly with ATOMIC_INIT(0).

2010-04-12T16:26:12+00:00

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day 
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1008/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Trace: Don't trace irqsoff for the idle process

2010-04-12T16:26:10+00:00

Like x86 did in arch/x86/kernel/{process_32.c,process_64.c}, also don't
trace irqsoff for idle.

If there's no useful work to be done, we don't care about the irqsoff
duration. If we trace the idle process, the max duration of irqsoff will
be the idle time and make the irqsoff tracer useless.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1044/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn