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This will simplify further modifications.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
o Add basic support for the Mediatek/Ralink Wireless SoC family.
o The Qualcomm Atheros platform is extended by support for the new
QCA955X SoC series as well as a bunch of patches that get the code
ready for OF support.
o Lantiq and BCM47XX platform have a few improvements and bug fixes.
o MIPS has sent a few patches that get the kernel ready for the
upcoming microMIPS support.
o The rest of the series is made up of small bug fixes and cleanups
that relate to various parts of the MIPS code. The biggy in there is
a whitespace cleanup. After I was sent another set of whitespace
cleanup patches I decided it was the time to clean the whitespace
"issues" for once and and that touches many files below arch/mips/.
Fix up silly conflicts, mostly due to whitespace cleanups.
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (105 commits)
MIPS: Quit exporting kernel internel break codes to uapi/asm/break.h
MIPS: remove broken conditional inside vpe loader code
MIPS: SMTC: fix implicit declaration of set_vi_handler
MIPS: early_printk: drop __init annotations
MIPS: Probe for and report hardware virtualization support.
MIPS: ath79: add support for the Qualcomm Atheros AP136-010 board
MIPS: ath79: add USB controller registration code for the QCA955X SoCs
MIPS: ath79: add PCI controller registration code for the QCA955X SoCs
MIPS: ath79: add WMAC registration code for the QCA955X SoCs
MIPS: ath79: register UART for the QCA955X SoCs
MIPS: ath79: add QCA955X specific glue to ath79_device_reset_{set, clear}
MIPS: ath79: add GPIO setup code for the QCA955X SoCs
MIPS: ath79: add IRQ handling code for the QCA955X SoCs
MIPS: ath79: add clock setup code for the QCA955X SoCs
MIPS: ath79: add SoC detection code for the QCA955X SoCs
MIPS: ath79: add early printk support for the QCA955X SoCs
MIPS: ath79: fix WMAC IRQ resource assignment
mips: reserve elfcorehdr
mips: Make sure kernel memory is in iomem
MIPS: ath79: use dynamically allocated USB platform devices
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we still need the wrappers to store callee-saved registers in
pt_regs, but once that done we can jump to kernel/fork.c variants.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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... it's COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE now
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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mips was the last architecture not using the generic variant.
Both native and compat variants switched to generic, which is
made unconditional now.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Having received another series of whitespace patches I decided to do this
once and for all rather than dealing with this kind of patches trickling
in forever.
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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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
"The MIPS bits for 3.8. This also includes a bunch fixes that were
sitting in the linux-mips.org git tree for a long time. This pull
request contains updates to several OCTEON drivers and the board
support code for BCM47XX, BCM63XX, XLP, XLR, XLS, lantiq, Loongson1B,
updates to the SSB bus support, MIPS kexec code and adds support for
kdump.
When pulling this, there are two expected merge conflicts in
include/linux/bcma/bcma_driver_chipcommon.h which are trivial to
resolve, just remove the conflict markers and keep both alternatives."
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (90 commits)
MIPS: PMC-Sierra Yosemite: Remove support.
VIDEO: Newport Fix console crashes
MIPS: wrppmc: Fix build of PCI code.
MIPS: IP22/IP28: Fix build of EISA code.
MIPS: RB532: Fix build of prom code.
MIPS: PowerTV: Fix build.
MIPS: IP27: Correct fucked grammar in ops-bridge.c
MIPS: Highmem: Fix build error if CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is disabled
MIPS: Fix potencial corruption
MIPS: Fix for warning from FPU emulation code
MIPS: Handle COP3 Unusable exception as COP1X for FP emulation
MIPS: Fix poweroff failure when HOTPLUG_CPU configured.
MIPS: MT: Fix build with CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS=y
MIPS: Remove unused smvp.h
MIPS/EDAC: Improve OCTEON EDAC support.
MIPS: OCTEON: Add definitions for OCTEON memory contoller registers.
MIPS: OCTEON: Add OCTEON family definitions to octeon-model.h
ata: pata_octeon_cf: Use correct byte order for DMA in when built little-endian.
MIPS/OCTEON/ata: Convert pata_octeon_cf.c to use device tree.
MIPS: Remove usage of CEVT_R4K_LIB config option.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
"All architectures are converted to new model. Quite a bit of that
stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.
A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):
- kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.
We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
or kernel_execve():
kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
successful do_execve() before returning.
kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
do transition to user mode anymore.
As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
resp. sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
architecture-independent.
- daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c
- struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/->load_binary/do_coredump.
- sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
kernel/fork.c now."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
new helper: signal_pt_regs()
unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
death to idle_regs()
don't pass regs to copy_process()
flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
xtensa: switch to generic clone()
openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
tile: switch to generic clone()
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Conflicts:
arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
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This needs to use the compat entry point or it's going to fail on big
endian systems.
Noticed by Al Viro.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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By using the native syscall entry point the kernel was also expecting
64-bit iovec structures.
This is broken since ddd9e91b71072b8ebe89311c3a44b077defa1756 [preadv/
pwritev: MIPS: Add preadv(2) and pwritev(2) syscalls.] which originally
added these two syscalls. I walked through piles of code, including
libc and couldn't find anything that would have worked around the issue
so this change the API to what it should always have been.
Noticed and patch suggested by Al Viro.
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 version contains a few updates by David Daney, in particular it's
now using __builtin_frame_address() instead of asm() which depending
on personal taste, is slightly more appealing.
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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No need to keep 4 copies of that stuff; merged and taken to
entry.S, unused public symbols there killed off.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2918/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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We can't trust userspace to pass signed-extend arguments. Not correctly
sign-extended arguments to futex-wait result in architecturally undefined
operation of 32-bit arithmetic instructions.
For example, if 'val' is too big and bit-31 is 1, the caller may enter
endless loop at:
futex_wait_setup()
{
...
if (uval != val) {
queue_unlock(q, *hb);
ret = -EWOULDBLOCK;
...
}
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang@windriver.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2714/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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The nfsservctl system call is now gone, so we should remove all
linkage for it.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Renumbering was necessary because I had already wired up setns(2) in the
linux-mips.org tree in commit c3fce54644cabbb90700cc3acc040718a377f609
[MIPS: Wire up new sendmmsg syscall.] but the same syscall numbers were
used by 7b21fddd087678a70ad64afc0f632e0f1071b092 [ns: Wire up the setns
system call] resulting in a conflict.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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32bit and 64bit on x86 are tested and working. The rest I have looked
at closely and I can't find any problems.
setns is an easy system call to wire up. It just takes two ints so I
don't expect any weird architecture porting problems.
While doing this I have noticed that we have some architectures that are
very slow to get new system calls. cris seems to be the slowest where
the last system calls wired up were preadv and pwritev. avr32 is weird
in that recvmmsg was wired up but never declared in unistd.h. frv is
behind with perf_event_open being the last syscall wired up. On h8300
the last system call wired up was epoll_wait. On m32r the last system
call wired up was fallocate. mn10300 has recvmmsg as the last system
call wired up. The rest seem to at least have syncfs wired up which was
new in the 2.6.39.
v2: Most of the architecture support added by Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
v3: ported to v2.6.36-rc4 by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
v4: Moved wiring up of the system call to another patch
v5: ported to v2.6.39-rc6
v6: rebased onto parisc-next and net-next to avoid syscall conflicts.
v7: ported to Linus's latest post 2.6.39 tree.
> arch/blackfin/include/asm/unistd.h | 3 ++-
> arch/blackfin/mach-common/entry.S | 1 +
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Oh - ia64 wiring looks good.
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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These system calls we recently added.
32-bit ABIs need compat handling for sys_clock_adjtime().
o32 also needs compat handling for sys_open_by_handle_at();
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2165/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
MIPS: O32 compat/N32: Fix to use compat syscall wrappers for AIO syscalls.
MAINTAINERS: Change list for ioc_serial to linux-serial.
SERIAL: ioc3_serial: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure
MIPS: jz4740: Fix Kbuild Platform file.
MIPS: Repair Kbuild make clean breakage.
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[Ralf: Michel's original patch only fixed N32; I replicated the same fix
for O32.]
Signed-off-by: Michel Thebeau <michel.thebeau@windriver.com>
Cc: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Cc: bruce.ashfield@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
MIPS: Enable ISA_DMA_API config to fix build failure
MIPS: 32-bit: Fix build failure in asm/fcntl.h
MIPS: Remove all generated vmlinuz* files on "make clean"
MIPS: do_sigaltstack() expects userland pointers
MIPS: Fix error values in case of bad_stack
MIPS: Sanitize restart logics
MIPS: secure_computing, syscall audit: syscall number should in r2, not r0.
MIPS: Don't block signals if we'd failed to setup a sigframe
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Put the original syscall number into ->regs[0] when we leave syscall
with error. Use it in restart logics. Everything else will have
it 0 since we pass through SAVE_SOME on all the ways in. Note that
in places like bad_stack and inllegal_syscall we leave it 0 - it's not
restartable.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1698/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1553/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Commit 31c984a5acabea5d8c7224dc226453022be46f33 introduced a new syscall
getdents64. However, in the syscall table, the new syscall still refers to
the old getdents which doesn't work.
The problem appeared with a system that uses the eglibc 2.12-r11187 (that
utilizes that new syscall) is very confused. The fix has been tested with
that eglibc version.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <walle@corscience.de>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: ddaney@caviumnetworks.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1567/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1515/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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As a relativly new ABI N32 should only have received the getdents64(2) but
instead it only had getdents(2). This was noticed as a performance anomaly
in glibc.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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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 <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1210/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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On an architecture that supports 32-bit compat we need to override the
reported machine in uname with the 32-bit value. Instead of doing this
separately in every architecture introduce a COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE define in
<asm/compat.h> and apply it directly in sys_newuname().
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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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Now that we have a generic 32bit compatibility implementation
there is no need for mips to implement it's own.
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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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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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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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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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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[Ralf: I fixed up the numbering in the comment in scall64-n32.S.]
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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