linux/arch, branch v2.6.20.7

i386: fix file_read_actor() and pipe_read() for original i386 systems

2007-04-13T20:47:01Z

The __copy_to_user_inatomic() calls in file_read_actor() and pipe_read() are broken on original i386 machines, where WP-works-ok == false, as __copy_to_user_inatomic() on such systems calls functions which might sleep and/or contain cond_resched() calls inside of a kmap_atomic() region. The original check for WP-works-ok was in access_ok(), but got moved during the 2.5 series to fix a race vs. swap. Return the number of bytes to copy in the case where we are in an atomic region, so the non atomic code pathes in file_read_actor() and pipe_read() are taken. This could be optimized to avoid the kmap_atomic by moving the check for WP-works-ok into fault_in_pages_writeable(), but this is more intrusive and can be done later. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

uml: fix unreasonably long udelay

2007-04-06T10:43:12Z

Currently we have a confused udelay implementation. * __const_udelay does not accept usecs but xloops in i386 and x86_64 * our implementation requires usecs as arg * it gets a xloops count when called by asm/arch/delay.h Bugs related to this (extremely long shutdown times) where reported by some x86_64 users, especially using Device Mapper. To hit this bug, a compile-time constant time parameter must be passed - that's why UML seems to work most times. Fix this with a simple udelay implementation. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

UML - use correct register file size everywhere

2007-04-06T10:43:12Z

This patch uses MAX_REG_NR consistently to refer to the register file size. FRAME_SIZE isn't sufficient because on x86_64, it is smaller than the ptrace register file size. MAX_REG_NR was introduced as a consistent way to get the number of registers, but wasn't used everywhere it should be. When this causes a problem, it makes PTRACE_SETREGS fail on x86_64 because of a corrupted segment register value in the known-good register file. The patch also adds a register dump at that point in case there are any future problems here. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

UML - host VDSO fix

2007-04-06T10:43:11Z

This fixes a problem seen by a number of people running UML on newer host kernels. init would hang with an infinite segfault loop. It turns out that the host kernel was providing a AT_SYSINFO_EHDR of 0xffffe000, which faked UML into believing that the host VDSO page could be reused. However, AT_SYSINFO pointed into the middle of the address space, and was unmapped as a result. Because UML was providing AT_SYSINFO_EHDR and AT_SYSINFO to its own processes, these would branch to nowhere when trying to use the VDSO. The fix is to also check the location of AT_SYSINFO when deciding whether to use the host's VDSO. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix niagara memory corruption

2007-03-23T19:49:27Z

[SPARC64]: store-init needs trailing membar. The manual says that it is required and we actually have crash reports where loads see stale data due to not having membars here. In one case the networking does: memset(skb, 0, offsetof(struct sk_buff, truesize)); and then some code later checks skb->nohdr for zero, but it's still the value that was there before the memset(). Note that arch/sparc64/lib/xor.S already got this right. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

UML - arch_prctl should set thread fs

2007-03-23T19:49:27Z

x86_64 needs some TLS fixes. What was missing was remembering the child thread id during clone and stuffing it into the child during each context switch. The %fs value is stored separately in the thread structure since the host controls what effect it has on the actual register file. The host also needs to store it in its own thread struct, so we need the value kept outside the register file. arch_prctl_skas was fixed to call PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL appropriately. There is some saving and restoring of registers in the ARCH_SET_* cases so that the correct set of registers are changed on the host and restored to the process when it runs again. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix page allocation debugging on sparc64

2007-03-23T19:49:26Z

[SPARC64]: Get DEBUG_PAGEALLOC working again. We have to make sure to use base-pagesize TLB entries even during the early transition period where we need TLB miss handling but don't have the kernel page tables setup yet for the linear region. Also, it is necessary therefore to not use the 4MB TSB for these translations, and instead use the normal kernel TSB. This allows us to also get rid of the 4MB tsb for debug builds which shrinks the kernel a little bit. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix sparc64 hugepage bugs

2007-03-23T19:49:26Z

[SPARC64]: Add missing HPAGE_MASK masks on address parameters. These pte loops all assume the passed in address is HPAGE aligned, make sure that is actually true. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

IA64: fix NULL pointer in ia64/irq_chip-mask/unmask function

2007-03-23T19:49:22Z

[IA64] fix NULL pointer in ia64/irq_chip-mask/unmask function This patch fixes boot failure because irq_desc->mask() is NULL. - Added mask/unmask functions to ia64's irq desc function table. - rename hw_interrupt_type to irq_chip. hw_interrupt_type is old name. - Tony: Added same change to arch/ia64/sn/kernel/irq.c as pointed out by Eric Biederman ... mask/unmask functions there can be no-op. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Cc: Chuck Ebbert Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix sparc64 device register probing

2007-03-13T18:26:47Z

[SPARC]: Fix bus handling in build_device_resources(). We mistakedly modify 'bus' in the innermost loop. What should happen is that at each register index iteration, we start with the same 'bus'. So preserve it's value at the top level, and use a loop local variable 'dbus' for iteration. This bug causes registers other than the first to be decoded improperly. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman