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Meaning receive multiple messages, reducing the number of syscalls and
net stack entry/exit operations.
Next patches will introduce mechanisms where protocols that want to
optimize this operation will provide an unlocked_recvmsg operation.
This takes into account comments made by:
. Paul Moore: sock_recvmsg is called only for the first datagram,
sock_recvmsg_nosec is used for the rest.
. Caitlin Bestler: recvmmsg now has a struct timespec timeout, that
works in the same fashion as the ppoll one.
If the underlying protocol returns a datagram with MSG_OOB set, this
will make recvmmsg return right away with as many datagrams (+ the OOB
one) it has received so far.
. Rémi Denis-Courmont & Steven Whitehouse: If we receive N < vlen
datagrams and then recvmsg returns an error, recvmmsg will return
the successfully received datagrams, store the error and return it
in the next call.
This paves the way for a subsequent optimization, sk_prot->unlocked_recvmsg,
where we will be able to acquire the lock only at batch start and end, not at
every underlying recvmsg call.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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commit 48a048fed82a8e5fdd8618574f6d3de1a0d67a50
Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Thu Sep 24 09:34:44 2009 -0600
apparently only passed the "looks good" level of QA ;-)
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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The definition of the irq_ipi structure has two initializations of the
flags field. This combines them.
[Ralf: The issue was originally introduced by commit
be4894196d79455f420dd7bb78be7dc73bec115c (linux-mips.org) rsp.
033890b084adfa367c544864451d7730552ce8bf (kernel.org). The original
intention of the code was to initialize .flags with both flags ored together.
The broken C code as actually implemented will be compiled by an equally
broken gcc to use only the last initialization, that is IRQF_PERCPU
which means this turned into an SMTC bug for 2.6.23 and newer.]
The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r@
identifier I, s, fld;
position p0,p;
expression E;
@@
struct I s =@p0 { ... .fld@p = E, ...};
@s@
identifier I, s, r.fld;
position r.p0,p;
expression E;
@@
struct I s =@p0 { ... .fld@p = E, ...};
@script:python@
p0 << r.p0;
fld << r.fld;
ps << s.p;
pr << r.p;
@@
if int(ps[0].line)!=int(pr[0].line) or int(ps[0].column)!=int(pr[0].column):
cocci.print_main(fld,p0)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Remove duplicated #include in arch/mips/kernel/smp.c.
Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Commit 51b563fc93c8cb5bff1d67a0a71c374e4a4ea049 ("arm, cris, mips,
sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0") removed a few
CPPFLAGS with vital include paths necessary to build vmlinux.lds
on MIPS, and moved the calculation of the 'jiffies' symbol
directly to vmlinux.lds.S but forgot to change make ifdef/... to
cpp macros.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
[sam: moved assignment of CPPFLAGS arch/mips/kernel/Makefile]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (39 commits)
cpumask: Move deprecated functions to end of header.
cpumask: remove unused deprecated functions, avoid accusations of insanity
cpumask: use new-style cpumask ops in mm/quicklist.
cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: x86
cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: um
cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: mips
cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: mn10300
cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: m32r
cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: arm
cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: um
cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: powerpc
cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: mips
cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: m32r
cpumask: remove arch_send_call_function_ipi
cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: s390
cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: powerpc
cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: mips
cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: m32r
cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: alpha
cpumask: remove obsolete topology_core_siblings and topology_thread_siblings: ia64
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Use the accessors rather than frobbing bits directly (the new versions
are const).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
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We're weaning the core code off handing cpumask's around on-stack.
This introduces arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask(), and by defining
it, the old arch_send_call_function_ipi is defined by the core code.
We also take the chance to wean the implementations off the
obsolescent for_each_cpu_mask(): making send_ipi_mask take the pointer
seemed the most natural way to ensure all implementations used
for_each_cpu.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (30 commits)
Use macros for .data.page_aligned section.
Use macros for .bss.page_aligned section.
Use new __init_task_data macro in arch init_task.c files.
kbuild: Don't define ALIGN and ENTRY when preprocessing linker scripts.
arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0
kbuild: add static to prototypes
kbuild: fail build if recordmcount.pl fails
kbuild: set -fconserve-stack option for gcc 4.5
kbuild: echo the record_mcount command
gconfig: disable "typeahead find" search in treeviews
kbuild: fix cc1 options check to ensure we do not use -fPIC when compiling
checkincludes.pl: add option to remove duplicates in place
markup_oops: use modinfo to avoid confusion with underscored module names
checkincludes.pl: provide usage helper
checkincludes.pl: close file as soon as we're done with it
ctags: usability fix
kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General
gitignore usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 and usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lzma
kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option
kbuild: introduce ld-option
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Fix trivial conflict in scripts/basic/fixdep.c
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Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!
In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.
Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.
All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)
The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.
Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.
User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)
This patch has been generated via the following script:
FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')
sed -i \
-e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
-e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
-e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
-e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
-e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
-e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
$FILES
for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
mv $N $M
done
FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)
sed -i \
-e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
-e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
-e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
-e 's/counter/event/g' \
-e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
$FILES
... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.
Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.
( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )
Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> reported:
Bash 4 filters out variables which contain a dot in them.
This happends to be the case of CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds.
This is rather unfortunate, as it now causes
build failures when using SHELL=/bin/bash to compile,
or when bash happens to be used by make (eg when it's /bin/sh)
Remove the common definition of CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds by
pushing relevant stuff to either Makefile.build or the
arch specific kernel/Makefile where we build the linker script.
This is also nice cleanup as we move the information out where
it is used.
Notes for the different architectures touched:
arm - we use an already exported symbol
cris - we use a config symbol aleady available
[Not build tested]
mips - the jiffies complexity has moved to vmlinux.lds.S where we need it.
Added a few variables to CPPFLAGS - they are only used by
the linker script.
[Not build tested]
powerpc - removed assignment that is not needed
[not build tested]
sparc - simplified it using $(BITS)
um - introduced a few new exported variables to deal with this
xtensa - added options to CPP invocation
[not build tested]
Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Todo: Nothing ever detects CPU_BCM6338 but the code tests for it anyway.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Eliminate the 'allow_au1k_wait' variable. MIPS kernel installs the
Alchemy-specific wait code before timer initialization; if the C0
timer must be used for timekeeping the wait function is set to NULL
which means no wait implementation is available.
As a sideeffect, the 'wait instruction available' output in
/proc/cpuinfo now correctly indicates whether 'wait' is usable.
Run-tested on DB1200.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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This way it doesn't have to use CONFIG_CPU_HAS_LLSC anymore.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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This patch results in fewer output sections and in some data being
reordered, but should have no functional impact.
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Now that PAGE_SIZE is available to assembly directly, there is no need
to separately expose it as _PAGE_SIZE through asm-offsets.
In addition, remove _PAGE_SHIFT from asm-offsets, since it was never
needed, and is not used anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Since 2.6.11-rc1 there is a prototype in <linux/smp.h>.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
percpu: add chunk->base_addr
percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
percpu: improve boot messages
percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
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Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits)
netxen: update copyright
netxen: fix tx timeout recovery
netxen: fix file firmware leak
netxen: improve pci memory access
netxen: change firmware write size
tg3: Fix return ring size breakage
netxen: build fix for INET=n
cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address
Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses
Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling
ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag
net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr()
ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex
ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations
phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs
drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree
drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree
net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL
Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded
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Fixed up trivial conflicts:
- arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h
converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree. The generic
header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine.
- drivers/net/tun.c
fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that
switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly
available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks
to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use.
Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
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Add #inclusions of linux/tracehook.h to those arch files that had the tracehook
call for TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME added when support for that flag was added to that
arch.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring onto its parent. This
replaces the parent's session keyring. Because the COW credential code does
not permit one process to change another process's credentials directly, the
change is deferred until userspace next starts executing again. Normally this
will be after a wait*() syscall.
To support this, three new security hooks have been provided:
cred_alloc_blank() to allocate unset security creds, cred_transfer() to fill in
the blank security creds and key_session_to_parent() - which asks the LSM if
the process may replace its parent's session keyring.
The replacement may only happen if the process has the same ownership details
as its parent, and the process has LINK permission on the session keyring, and
the session keyring is owned by the process, and the LSM permits it.
Note that this requires alteration to each architecture's notify_resume path.
This has been done for all arches barring blackfin, m68k* and xtensa, all of
which need assembly alteration to support TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME. This allows the
replacement to be performed at the point the parent process resumes userspace
execution.
This allows the userspace AFS pioctl emulation to fully emulate newpag() and
the VIOCSETTOK and VIOCSETTOK2 pioctls, all of which require the ability to
alter the parent process's PAG membership. However, since kAFS doesn't use
PAGs per se, but rather dumps the keys into the session keyring, the session
keyring of the parent must be replaced if, for example, VIOCSETTOK is passed
the newpag flag.
This can be tested with the following program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <keyutils.h>
#define KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT 18
#define OSERROR(X, S) do { if ((long)(X) == -1) { perror(S); exit(1); } } while(0)
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
key_serial_t keyring, key;
long ret;
keyring = keyctl_join_session_keyring(argv[1]);
OSERROR(keyring, "keyctl_join_session_keyring");
key = add_key("user", "a", "b", 1, keyring);
OSERROR(key, "add_key");
ret = keyctl(KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT);
OSERROR(ret, "KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT");
return 0;
}
Compiled and linked with -lkeyutils, you should see something like:
[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
Session Keyring
-3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: _ses
355907932 --alswrv 4043 -1 \_ keyring: _uid.4043
[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag
[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
Session Keyring
-3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: _ses
1055658746 --alswrv 4043 4043 \_ user: a
[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag hello
[dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show
Session Keyring
-3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: hello
340417692 --alswrv 4043 4043 \_ user: a
Where the test program creates a new session keyring, sticks a user key named
'a' into it and then installs it on its parent.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Implement TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME for most of those architectures in which isn't yet
available, and, whilst we're at it, have it call the appropriate tracehook.
After this patch, blackfin, m68k* and xtensa still lack support and need
alteration of assembly code to make it work.
Resume notification can then be used (by a later patch) to install a new
session keyring on the parent of a process.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Conflicts:
arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
mm/percpu.c
Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit
ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many
num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids. As for-next branch has moved all
the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved
from arch code to mm/percpu.c.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
arch/microblaze/include/asm/socket.h
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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None of these is used outside the VPE loader.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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This may happen if a bad sequence of relocations is being encountered.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Raghu Gandham <raghu@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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There were three different errors resulting in a "dangerous relocation"
message. Add the relocation type to the messgages to make them more
useful.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Loading of modules with unresolved weak symbols fails on MIPS
since '88173507e4fc1e7ecd111b0565e8cba0cb7dae6d'.
Modules: handle symbols that have a zero value
The module subsystem cannot handle symbols that are zero. If symbols
are present that have a zero value then the module resolver prints out a
message that these symbols are unresolved.
We have to use IS_ERR_VALUE() to check that a symbol has been resolved
or not.
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghu Gandham <raghu@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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The resume() implementation octeon_switch.S examines the saved cp0_status
register. We were clobbering the entire pt_regs structure in kernel
threads leading to random crashes.
When switching away from a kernel thread, the saved cp0_status is examined
and if bit 30 is set it is cleared and the CP2 state saved into the pt_regs
structure. Since the kernel thread stack overlaid the pt_regs structure
this resulted in a corrupt stack. When the kthread with the corrupt stack
was resumed, it could crash if it used any of the data in the stack that was
clobbered.
We fix it by moving the kernel thread stack down so it doesn't overlay
pt_regs.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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They tend to get not updated when files are moved around or copied and
lack any obvious use. While at it zap some only too obvious comments and
as per Shinya's suggestion, add a copyright header to extable.c.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi@necel.com>
Acked-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
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Wireless extensions have the unfortunate problem that events
are multicast netlink messages, and are not independent of
pointer size. Thus, currently 32-bit tasks on 64-bit platforms
cannot properly receive events and fail with all kinds of
strange problems, for instance wpa_supplicant never notices
disassociations, due to the way the 64-bit event looks (to a
32-bit process), the fact that the address is all zeroes is
lost, it thinks instead it is 00:00:00:00:01:00.
The same problem existed with the ioctls, until David Miller
fixed those some time ago in an heroic effort.
A different problem caused by this is that we cannot send the
ASSOCREQIE/ASSOCRESPIE events because sending them causes a
32-bit wpa_supplicant on a 64-bit system to overwrite its
internal information, which is worse than it not getting the
information at all -- so we currently resort to sending a
custom string event that it then parses. This, however, has a
severe size limitation we are frequently hitting with modern
access points; this limitation would can be lifted after this
patch by sending the correct binary, not custom, event.
A similar problem apparently happens for some other netlink
users on x86_64 with 32-bit tasks due to the alignment for
64-bit quantities.
In order to fix these problems, I have implemented a way to
send compat messages to tasks. When sending an event, we send
the non-compat event data together with a compat event data in
skb_shinfo(main_skb)->frag_list. Then, when the event is read
from the socket, the netlink code makes sure to pass out only
the skb that is compatible with the task. This approach was
suggested by David Miller, my original approach required
always sending two skbs but that had various small problems.
To determine whether compat is needed or not, I have used the
MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag, and adjusted the call path for recv and
recvfrom to include it, even if those calls do not have a cmsg
parameter.
I have not solved one small part of the problem, and I don't
think it is necessary to: if a 32-bit application uses read()
rather than any form of recvmsg() it will still get the wrong
(64-bit) event. However, neither do applications actually do
this, nor would it be a regression.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT
This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
(which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Discarded sections in different archs share some commonality but have
considerable differences. This led to linker script for each arch
implementing its own /DISCARD/ definition, which makes maintaining
tedious and adding new entries error-prone.
This patch makes all linker scripts to move discard definitions to the
end of the linker script and use the common DISCARDS macro. As ld
uses the first matching section definition, archs can include default
discarded sections by including them earlier in the linker script.
ia64 is notable because it first throws away some ia64 specific
subsections and then include the rest of the sections into the final
image, so those sections must be discarded before the inclusion.
defconfig compile tested for x86, x86-64, powerpc, powerpc64, ia64,
alpha, sparc, sparc64 and s390. Michal Simek tested microblaze.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix
changes. As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of
inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute.
Conflicts:
arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h
arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
include/linux/percpu-defs.h
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Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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If an o32 process generates a core dump on a 64 bit kernel, the core file
will not be correctly recognized. This is because ELF_CORE_COPY_REGS and
ELF_CORE_COPY_TASK_REGS are not correctly defined for o32 and will use
the default register set which would be CONFIG_64BIT in asm/elf.h.
So we'll switch to use the right register defines in this situation by
checking for WANT_COMPAT_REG_H and use the right defines of
ELF_CORE_COPY_REGS and ELF_CORE_COPY_TASK_REGS.
[Ralf: made ELF_CORE_COPY_TASK_REGS() bullet-proof against funny arguments.]
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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This revises the sync-4k so it will boot and operate since the removal of
expirelo from the timer code.
Signed-off-by: Tim Anderson <tanderson@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Most of the CMP support was added before, this mostly correct compile
problems but adds a platform specific translation for the interrupt number
based on cpu number.
Signed-off-by: Tim Anderson <tanderson@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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This takes the current IPI interrupt assignment from the fix number of 4
to the number of CPUs defined in the system.
Signed-off-by: Tim Anderson <tanderson@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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