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Mirror the logic in the sun4u handler, we have to update
both registers even when we branch out to window fault
fixup handling.
The way it works is that if we are in etrap processing a
fault already, g4/g5 holds the original fault information.
If we take a window spill fault while doing etrap, then
we put the window spill fault info into g4/g5 and this is
what the top-level fault handler ends up processing first.
Then we retry the originally faulting instruction, and
process the original fault at that time.
This is all necessary because of how constrained the trap
registers are in these code paths. These cases trigger
very rarely, so even if there is some performance implication
it's doesn't happen very often. In fact the rarity is why
it took so long to trigger and find this particular bug.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Compiling the kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG = y and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU = n
with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE = y generates the following modpost warnings
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from
.text between '_cpu_up' (at offset 0xc0141b7d) and 'cpu_up'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from
.text between '_cpu_up' (at offset 0xc0141b9c) and 'cpu_up'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__cpu_up
from .text between '_cpu_up' (at offset 0xc0141bd8) and 'cpu_up'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from
.text between '_cpu_up' (at offset 0xc0141c05) and 'cpu_up'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from
.text between '_cpu_up' (at offset 0xc0141c26) and 'cpu_up'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from
.text between '_cpu_up' (at offset 0xc0141c37) and 'cpu_up'
This is because cpu_up, _cpu_up and __cpu_up (in some architectures) are
defined as __devinit
AND
__cpu_up calls some __cpuinit functions.
Since __cpuinit would map to __init with this kind of a configuration,
we get a .text refering .init.data warning.
This patch solves the problem by converting all of __cpu_up, _cpu_up
and cpu_up from __devinit to __cpuinit. The approach is justified since
the callers of cpu_up are either dependent on CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU or
are of __init type.
Thus when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y, all these cpu up functions would land up
in .text section, and when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n, all these functions would
land up in .init section.
Tested on a i386 SMP machine running linux-2.6.20-rc3-mm1.
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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And this points out that the return value from
isa_dev_get_resource() and the 'pregs' arg to
isa_dev_get_irq() are totally unused.
Based upon a patch from Richard Mortimer <richm@oldelvet.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We need to pass in the resource otherwise we cannot
release the region properly. We must know whether it is
an I/O or MEM resource.
Spotted by Eric Brower.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We were not being careful enough. When we trim the physical
memory areas, we have to make sure we don't remove the kernel
image or initial ramdisk image ranges.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The apple fn keys don't work anymore with 2.6.20-rc1.
The reason is that USB_HID_POWERBOOK appears in several files although
USB_HIDINPUT_POWERBOOK is the thing to be used.
The patch fixes this.
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Use struct irq_chip instead of hw_interrupt_type.
Delete hw_resend_irq(), totally unused.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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It branches around some necessary prom calls, which we would
need to do even if we are mapped at the correct location already.
So it doesn't work.
The idea was that this sort of thing could be used for the eventual
kexec implementation, but it is clear that this will need to be
done differently.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Run this:
#!/bin/sh
for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do
echo "De-casting $f..."
perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f
done
And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers
to non-pointers.
And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work.
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- relbranch_fixup(), for non-branches, would end up setting
regs->tnpc incorrectly, in fact it would set it equal to
regs->tpc which would cause that instruction to execute twice
Also, if this is not a PC-relative branch, we should just
leave regs->tnpc as-is. This covers cases like 'jmpl' which
branch to absolute values.
- To be absolutely %100 safe, we need to flush the instruction
cache for all assignments to kprobe->ainsn.insn[], including
cases like add_aggr_kprobe()
- prev_kprobe's status field needs to be 'unsigned long' to match
the type of the value it is saving
- jprobes were totally broken:
= jprobe_return() can run in the stack frame of the jprobe handler,
or in an even deeper stack frame, thus we'll be in the wrong
register window than the one from the original probe state.
So unwind using 'restore' instructions, if necessary, right
before we do the jprobe_return() breakpoint trap.
= There is no reason to save/restore the register window saved
at %sp at jprobe trigger time. Those registers cannot be
modified by the jprobe handler. Also, this code was saving
and restoring "sizeof (struct sparc_stackf)" bytes. Depending
upon the caller, this could clobber unrelated stack frame
pieces if there is only a basic 128-byte register window
stored on the stack, without the argument save area.
So just saving and restoring struct pt_regs is sufficient.
= Kill the "jprobe_saved_esp", totally unused.
Also, delete "jprobe_saved_regs_location", with the stack frame
unwind now done explicitly by jprobe_return(), this check is
superfluous.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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ptrace_traceme() consolidation made
ret = ptrace_traceme();
dead write.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
Signed-off-by: Yan Burman <burman.yan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Userspace is forbidden from making unaligned loads and
stores. So if we get an unaligned trap due to a
{get,put}_user(), signal a fault and run the exception
handler.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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To add this logic, put the VIS instruction check at the
vis_emul() call site instead of inside of vis_emul().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This facility provides three entry points:
ilog2() Log base 2 of unsigned long
ilog2_u32() Log base 2 of u32
ilog2_u64() Log base 2 of u64
These facilities can either be used inside functions on dynamic data:
int do_something(long q)
{
...;
y = ilog2(x)
...;
}
Or can be used to statically initialise global variables with constant values:
unsigned n = ilog2(27);
When performing static initialisation, the compiler will report "error:
initializer element is not constant" if asked to take a log of zero or of
something not reducible to a constant. They treat negative numbers as
unsigned.
When not dealing with a constant, they fall back to using fls() which permits
them to use arch-specific log calculation instructions - such as BSR on
x86/x86_64 or SCAN on FRV - if available.
[akpm@osdl.org: MMC fix]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Wojtek Kaniewski <wojtekka@toxygen.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix the locking of signal->tty.
Use ->sighand->siglock to protect ->signal->tty; this lock is already used
by most other members of ->signal/->sighand. And unless we are 'current'
or the tasklist_lock is held we need ->siglock to access ->signal anyway.
(NOTE: sys_unshare() is broken wrt ->sighand locking rules)
Note that tty_mutex is held over tty destruction, so while holding
tty_mutex any tty pointer remains valid. Otherwise the lifetime of ttys
are governed by their open file handles. This leaves some holes for tty
access from signal->tty (or any other non file related tty access).
It solves the tty SLAB scribbles we were seeing.
(NOTE: the change from group_send_sig_info to __group_send_sig_info needs to
be examined by someone familiar with the security framework, I think
it is safe given the SEND_SIG_PRIV from other __group_send_sig_info
invocations)
[schwidefsky@de.ibm.com: 3270 fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: various post-viro fixes]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (156 commits)
[PATCH] x86-64: Export smp_call_function_single
[PATCH] i386: Clean up smp_tune_scheduling()
[PATCH] unwinder: move .eh_frame to RODATA
[PATCH] unwinder: fully support linker generated .eh_frame_hdr section
[PATCH] x86-64: don't use set_irq_regs()
[PATCH] x86-64: check vector in setup_ioapic_dest to verify if need setup_IO_APIC_irq
[PATCH] x86-64: Make ix86 default to HIGHMEM4G instead of NOHIGHMEM
[PATCH] i386: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
[PATCH] x86-64: remove remaining pc98 code
[PATCH] x86-64: remove unused variable
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix constraints in atomic_add_return()
[PATCH] x86-64: fix asm constraints in i386 atomic_add_return
[PATCH] x86-64: Correct documentation for bzImage protocol v2.05
[PATCH] x86-64: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc in MTRR code
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix numaq build error
[PATCH] x86-64: include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h isn't a userspace header
[PATCH] unwinder: Add debugging output to the Dwarf2 unwinder
[PATCH] x86-64: Clarify error message in GART code
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix interrupt race in idle callback (3rd try)
[PATCH] x86-64: Remove unwind stack pointer alignment forcing again
...
Fixed conflict in include/linux/uaccess.h manually
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Define elf_addr_t in linux/elf.h. The size of the type is determined using
ELF_CLASS. This allows us to remove the defines that today are spread all
over .c and .h files.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.
The patch was generated using the following script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
#
set -e
for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
quilt add $file
sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $file
quilt refresh
done
The script was run like this
sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Following up with the work on shared page table done by Dave McCracken. This
set of patch target shared page table for hugetlb memory only.
The shared page table is particular useful in the situation of large number of
independent processes sharing large shared memory segments. In the normal
page case, the amount of memory saved from process' page table is quite
significant. For hugetlb, the saving on page table memory is not the primary
objective (as hugetlb itself already cuts down page table overhead
significantly), instead, the purpose of using shared page table on hugetlb is
to allow faster TLB refill and smaller cache pollution upon TLB miss.
With PT sharing, pte entries are shared among hundreds of processes, the cache
consumption used by all the page table is smaller and in return, application
gets much higher cache hit ratio. One other effect is that cache hit ratio
with hardware page walker hitting on pte in cache will be higher and this
helps to reduce tlb miss latency. These two effects contribute to higher
application performance.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Print the addresses of non-absolute symbols relative to _text
so that ld will generate relocations. Allowing a relocatable
kernel to relocate them. We can't actually use the symbol names
because kallsyms includes static symbols that are not exported
from their object files.
Add the _text symbol definitions to the architectures which don't
define it otherwise linker will fail.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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The setting of the CACHE_LINE_SIZE register in sparc64's pci
initialisation code isn't quite adequate as the device may have
incompatible requirements. The generic code tests for this, so switch
sparc64 over to using it.
Since sparc64 has different L1 cache line size and PCI cache line size,
it would need to override the generic code like i386 and ia64 do. We
know what the cache line size is at compile time though, so introduce a
new optional constant PCI_CACHE_LINE_BYTES.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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When I added the entries for the robust futex syscall entries, I
forgot to bump NR_SYSCALLS. The current situation is error-prone
because NR_SYSCALLS lives in entry.S where the system call limit
checks are enforced. Move the definition to asm/unistd.h in order to
make this mistake much more difficult to make.
And wire up sys_migrate_pages since the powerpc folks implemented the
compat wrapper for us.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The code in schizo_irq_trans_init() should set irq_data->sync_reg
to the location of the SYNC register if this is Tomatillo, and set
it to zero otherwise. But that is not what it is doing.
As a result, non-Tomatillo systems were trying to access a
non-existent register resulting in bus errors at the first
PCI interrupt.
Thanks to Roland Stigge for the bug report.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC]: Fix bus_id[] string overflow.
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Add a vmlinux.lds.h helper macro for defining the eight-level initcall table,
teach all the architectures to use it.
This is a prerequisite for a patch which performs initcall synchronisation for
multithreaded-probing.
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
[ Added AVR32 as well ]
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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dp->path_component_name can be larger than ->bus_id[]
so use a different naming scheme for this stuff.
Noticed by Jurij Smakov.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The second argument to free_npages() was being incorrectly
calculated, which would thus access far past the end of the
arena->map[] bitmap.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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1) probe_other_fhcs() wants to see only non-central FHC
busses, so skip FHCs that don't sit off the root
2) Like SBUS, FHC can lack the appropriate address and
size cell count properties, so add an of_busses[]
entry and handlers for that.
3) Central FHC irq translator probing was buggy. We
were trying to use dp->child in irq_trans_init but
that linkage is not setup at this point.
So instead, pass in the parent of "dp" and look for
the child "fhc" with parent "central".
Thanks to the tireless assistence of Ben Collins in tracking
down these problems and testing out these fixes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Use request_mem_region() if IORESOURCE_MEM.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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virtual-dma property layout is [start, size] not [start, end].
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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For Hummingbird PCI controllers, we should create the root
PCI memory space resource as the full 4GB area, and then
allocate the IOMMU DMA translation window out of there.
The old code just assumed that the IOMMU DMA translation base
to the top of the 4GB area was unusable. This is not true on
many systems such as SB100 and SB150, where the IOMMU DMA
translation window sits at 0xc0000000->0xdfffffff.
So what would happen is that any device mapped by the firmware
at the top section 0xe0000000->0xffffffff would get remapped
by Linux somewhere else leading to all kinds of problems and
boot failures.
While we're here, report more cases of OBP resource assignment
conflicts. The only truly valid ones are ROM resource conflicts.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Unused, but still allow the '-s' boot option to be passed
down to init.
Based upon patches by Martin Habets.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fix this 2.6.19-rc1 build warnings from modpost:
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:sunzilog_console_setup from .data between 'sunzilog_console' (at offset 0x8394) and 'devices_subsys'
Signed-off-by: Martin Habets <errandir_news@mph.eclipse.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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They have to be unique system-wide, so use
"NAME@NODE" as the string pattern of the non-root
nodes.
Thanks to Andrew Morton for fixing the error value
checking in bus_add_device() which made this problem
finally noticable.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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kbuild explicitly includes this at build time.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
[SPARC64]: Do not include compat.h from asm-sparc64/signal.h any more.
[SPARC64]: Move signal compat bits to new header file.
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These patches make the kernel pass 64-bit inode numbers internally when
communicating to userspace, even on a 32-bit system. They are required
because some filesystems have intrinsic 64-bit inode numbers: NFS3+ and XFS
for example. The 64-bit inode numbers are then propagated to userspace
automatically where the arch supports it.
Problems have been seen with userspace (eg: ld.so) using the 64-bit inode
number returned by stat64() or getdents64() to differentiate files, and
failing because the 64-bit inode number space was compressed to 32-bits, and
so overlaps occur.
This patch:
Make filldir_t take a 64-bit inode number and struct kstat carry a 64-bit
inode number so that 64-bit inode numbers can be passed back to userspace.
The stat functions then returns the full 64-bit inode number where
available and where possible. If it is not possible to represent the inode
number supplied by the filesystem in the field provided by userspace, then
error EOVERFLOW will be issued.
Similarly, the getdents/readdir functions now pass the full 64-bit inode
number to userspace where possible, returning EOVERFLOW instead when a
directory entry is encountered that can't be properly represented.
Note that this means that some inodes will not be stat'able on a 32-bit
system with old libraries where they were before - but it does mean that
there will be no ambiguity over what a 32-bit inode number refers to.
Note similarly that directory scans may be cut short with an error on a
32-bit system with old libraries where the scan would work before for the
same reasons.
It is judged unlikely that this situation will occur because modern glibc
uses 64-bit capable versions of stat and getdents class functions
exclusively, and that older systems are unlikely to encounter
unrepresentable inode numbers anyway.
[akpm: alpha build fix]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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