linux/arch/alpha/lib, branch v3.8

alpha: Use new generic strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user()

2012-08-19T15:41:18Z

Similar to x86/sparc/powerpc implementations except: 1) we implement an extremely efficient has_zero()/find_zero() sequence with both prep_zero_mask() and create_zero_mask() no-operations. 2) Our output from prep_zero_mask() differs in that only the lowest eight bits are used to represent the zero bytes nevertheless it can be safely ORed with other similar masks from prep_zero_mask() and forms input to create_zero_mask(), the two fundamental properties prep_zero_mask() must satisfy. Tests on EV67 and EV68 CPUs revealed that the generic code is essentially as fast (to within 0.5% of CPU cycles) of the old Alpha specific code for large quadword-aligned strings, despite the 30% extra CPU instructions executed. In contrast, the generic code for unaligned strings is substantially slower (by more than a factor of 3) than the old Alpha specific code. Signed-off-by: Michael Cree Acked-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Disintegrate asm/system.h for Alpha

2012-03-28T17:11:12Z

Disintegrate asm/system.h for Alpha. Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org

atomic: use

2011-07-26T23:49:47Z

This allows us to move duplicated code in (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: David Miller Cc: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Mike Frysinger Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23Z

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

alpha: change to new Makefile flag variables

2011-01-17T04:42:13Z

Signed-off-by: matt mooney Signed-off-by: Matt Turner

remove __attribute_used__

2008-01-28T22:21:18Z

Remove the deprecated __attribute_used__. [Introduce __section in a few places to silence checkpatch /sam] Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

alpha: strncpy/strncat fixes

2007-12-18T03:28:15Z

First of all, thanks to Bob Tracy and Michael Cree for testing. Especially to Bob, as he has done titanic multi-day git-bisect work that finally helped to reproduce and nail down the bug (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9457). [ev6-]stxncpy.S: it's t12, not t2 register that is supposed to contain the last byte offset upon return. As a result of wrong register use (which was my fault back in 2003, IIRC), under some circumstances extra terminating zero bytes were added to destination string. This particularly led to incorrect DEVPATH strings generated in uevent and therefore to udev problems. strncpy.S: unrelated bug I found while testing the above fix - destination is not properly zero-padded then a byte count exceeds source length. Actually this is addition to strncpy fix from last year. Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Bob Tracy Cc: Michael Cree Cc: Kay Sievers Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

spelling fixes: arch/alpha/

2007-10-19T23:04:37Z

Spelling fixes in arch/alpha/. Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

remove asm/bitops.h includes

2007-10-19T18:53:41Z

remove asm/bitops.h includes including asm/bitops directly may cause compile errors. don't include it and include linux/bitops instead. next patch will deny including asm header directly. Cc: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CC

2007-10-14T20:21:35Z

The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour. On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to pass in additional flags to gcc. This patch replace use of CFLAGS with KBUILD_CFLAGS all over the tree and enabling one to use: make CFLAGS=... to specify additional gcc commandline options. One usecase is when trying to find gcc bugs but other use cases has been requested too. Patch was tested on following architectures: alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k Test was simple to do a defconfig build, apply the patch and check that nothing got rebuild. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg