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2012-01-17audit: inline audit_syscall_entry to reduce burden on archsEric Paris
Every arch calls: if (unlikely(current->audit_context)) audit_syscall_entry() which requires knowledge about audit (the existance of audit_context) in the arch code. Just do it all in static inline in audit.h so that arch's can remain blissfully ignorant. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-01-17Audit: push audit success and retcode into arch ptrace.hEric Paris
The audit system previously expected arches calling to audit_syscall_exit to supply as arguments if the syscall was a success and what the return code was. Audit also provides a helper AUDITSC_RESULT which was supposed to simplify things by converting from negative retcodes to an audit internal magic value stating success or failure. This helper was wrong and could indicate that a valid pointer returned to userspace was a failed syscall. The fix is to fix the layering foolishness. We now pass audit_syscall_exit a struct pt_reg and it in turns calls back into arch code to collect the return value and to determine if the syscall was a success or failure. We also define a generic is_syscall_success() macro which determines success/failure based on if the value is < -MAX_ERRNO. This works for arches like x86 which do not use a separate mechanism to indicate syscall failure. We make both the is_syscall_success() and regs_return_value() static inlines instead of macros. The reason is because the audit function must take a void* for the regs. (uml calls theirs struct uml_pt_regs instead of just struct pt_regs so audit_syscall_exit can't take a struct pt_regs). Since the audit function takes a void* we need to use static inlines to cast it back to the arch correct structure to dereference it. The other major change is that on some arches, like ia64, MIPS and ppc, we change regs_return_value() to give us the negative value on syscall failure. THE only other user of this macro, kretprobe_example.c, won't notice and it makes the value signed consistently for the audit functions across all archs. In arch/sh/kernel/ptrace_64.c I see that we were using regs[9] in the old audit code as the return value. But the ptrace_64.h code defined the macro regs_return_value() as regs[3]. I have no idea which one is correct, but this patch now uses the regs_return_value() function, so it now uses regs[3]. For powerpc we previously used regs->result but now use the regs_return_value() function which uses regs->gprs[3]. regs->gprs[3] is always positive so the regs_return_value(), much like ia64 makes it negative before calling the audit code when appropriate. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> [for x86 portion] Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [for ia64] Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> [for uml] Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [for sparc] Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> [for mips] Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [for ppc]
2012-01-06Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, tsc: Skip TSC synchronization checks for tsc=reliable clocksource: Convert tcb_clksrc to use clocksource_register_hz/khz clocksource: cris: Convert to clocksource_register_khz clocksource: xtensa: Convert to clocksource_register_hz/khz clocksource: um: Convert to clocksource_register_hz/khz clocksource: parisc: Convert to clocksource_register_hz/khz clocksource: m86k: Convert to clocksource_register_hz/khz time: x86: Replace LATCH with PIT_LATCH in i8253 clocksource driver time: x86: Remove CLOCK_TICK_RATE from acpi_pm clocksource driver time: x86: Remove CLOCK_TICK_RATE from mach_timer.h time: x86: Remove CLOCK_TICK_RATE from tsc code time: Fix spelling mistakes in new comments time: fix bogus comment in timekeeping_get_ns_raw
2011-12-11nohz: Remove tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() / tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu()Frederic Weisbecker
Those two APIs were provided to optimize the calls of tick_nohz_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_enter() into a single irq disabled section. This way no interrupt happening in-between would needlessly process any RCU job. Now we are talking about an optimization for which benefits have yet to be measured. Let's start simple and completely decouple idle rcu and dyntick idle logics to simplify. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stopFrederic Weisbecker
It is assumed that rcu won't be used once we switch to tickless mode and until we restart the tick. However this is not always true, as in x86-64 where we dereference the idle notifiers after the tick is stopped. To prepare for fixing this, add two new APIs: tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() and tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(). If no use of RCU is made in the idle loop between tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() calls, the arch must instead call the new *_norcu() version such that the arch doesn't need to call rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(). Otherwise the arch must call tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() and also call explicitly: - rcu_idle_enter() after its last use of RCU before the CPU is put to sleep. - rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU is woken up. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11nohz: Separate out irq exit and idle loop dyntick logicFrederic Weisbecker
The tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() function, which tries to delay the next timer tick as long as possible, can be called from two places: - From the idle loop to start the dytick idle mode - From interrupt exit if we have interrupted the dyntick idle mode, so that we reprogram the next tick event in case the irq changed some internal state that requires this action. There are only few minor differences between both that are handled by that function, driven by the ts->inidle cpu variable and the inidle parameter. The whole guarantees that we only update the dyntick mode on irq exit if we actually interrupted the dyntick idle mode, and that we enter in RCU extended quiescent state from idle loop entry only. Split this function into: - tick_nohz_idle_enter(), which sets ts->inidle to 1, enters dynticks idle mode unconditionally if it can, and enters into RCU extended quiescent state. - tick_nohz_irq_exit() which only updates the dynticks idle mode when ts->inidle is set (ie: if tick_nohz_idle_enter() has been called). To maintain symmetry, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick() has been renamed into tick_nohz_idle_exit(). This simplifies the code and micro-optimize the irq exit path (no need for local_irq_save there). This also prepares for the split between dynticks and rcu extended quiescent state logics. We'll need this split to further fix illegal uses of RCU in extended quiescent states in the idle loop. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-05Merge branch 'fortglx/3.3/tip/timers/core' of ↵Thomas Gleixner
git://git.linaro.org/people/jstultz/linux into timers/core
2011-11-21clocksource: um: Convert to clocksource_register_hz/khzJohn Stultz
This converts the um clocksource to use clocksource_register_hz/khz This is untested, so any assistance in testing would be appreciated! CC: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
2011-11-02um: distribute exports to where exported stuff is definedAl Viro
ksyms.c is down to the stuff defined in various USER_OBJS Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2011-11-02um: fix gcov build breakageAl Viro
a) exports in gmon_syms.c duplicate kernel/gcov/* ones b) excluding -pg in vdso compile is not enough - -fprofile-arcs and -ftest-coverage also needs to be excluded Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2011-11-02um: kill shared/tlb.hAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2011-11-02um: make flush_tlb_kernel_range_common() staticAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2011-11-02um: make load_initrd() static, kill shared/initrd.hAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2011-11-02um: kill includes of sysdep/sigcontext.h from stuff built with kernel headersAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2011-11-02um: kill dead code around uaccessAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2011-11-02um: -include user.h for USER_OBJ, trim includesAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2011-09-14um: clean arch_ptrace() up a bitAl Viro
1) take subarch-specific stuff to subarch_ptrace() 2) PTRACE_{PEEK,POKE}{TEXT,DATA} is handled by ptrace_request() just fine... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-14um: Save FPU registers between task switchesIngo van Lil
Some time ago Jeff prepared 42daba316557 ("uml: stop saving process FP state") for UML to stop saving the process FP state between task switches. The assumption was that since with SKAS0 every guest process runs inside a host process context the host OS will take care of keeping the proper FP state. Unfortunately this is not true for multi-threaded applications, where all guest threads share a single host process context yet all may use the FPU on their own. Although I haven't verified it I suspect things to be even worse in SKAS3 mode where all guest processes run inside a single host process. The patch reintroduces the saving and restoring of the FP context between task switches. [richard@nod.at: Ingo posted this patch in 2009, sadly it was never applied and got lost. Now in 2011 the problem was reported by Gunnar.] Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Reported-by: <gunnarlindroth@hotmail.com> Tested-by: <gunnarlindroth@hotmail.com> Cc: Stanislav Meduna <stano@meduna.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25um: remove dead codeRichard Weinberger
GCC 4.6's -Wunused-but-set-variable found some dead code. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25um, exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)Mathias Krause
The address limit is already set in flush_old_exec() so this set_fs(USER_DS) is redundant. Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25um: print info about fatal segfaultsRichard Weinberger
Print a short info about fatal segfaults like other archs do. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25um: add earlyprintk supportRichard Weinberger
User Mode Linux can also benefit from earlyprintk. UML's earlyprintk writes kernel messages directly to stdout. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storagePeter Zijlstra
Fold all the mmu_gather rework patches into one for submission Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-14sched: Provide scheduler_ipi() callback in response to smp_send_reschedule()Peter Zijlstra
For future rework of try_to_wake_up() we'd like to push part of that function onto the CPU the task is actually going to run on. In order to do so we need a generic callback from the existing scheduler IPI. This patch introduces such a generic callback: scheduler_ipi() and implements it as a NOP. BenH notes: PowerPC might use this IPI on offline CPUs under rare conditions! Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152728.744338123@chello.nl
2011-03-24um: Use generic show_interrupts()Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-03-24um: Convert genirq namespaceThomas Gleixner
Scripted with coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-02-14um: Use proper accessors in show_interrupts()Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20110206224515.322707425@linutronix.de>
2011-02-14um: Convert irq_chips to new functionsThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20110206224515.224027758@linutronix.de>
2011-02-14um: Remove stale irq_chip.endThomas Gleixner
irq_chip.end got obsolete with the remnoval of __do_IRQ(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20110206224515.135703209@linutronix.de>
2011-01-13thp: pte alloc trans splittingAndrea Arcangeli
pte alloc routines must wait for split_huge_page if the pmd is not present and not null (i.e. pmd_trans_splitting). The additional branches are optimized away at compile time by pmd_trans_splitting if the config option is off. However we must pass the vma down in order to know the anon_vma lock to wait for. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-17BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h>Arnd Bergmann
The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point, leaving only the #include. Remove this too as a cleanup. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12um: fix ptrace build errorRichard Weinberger
Both commits 0a3d763f1a68 ("ptrace: cleanup arch_ptrace() on um") and 9b05a69e0534 ("ptrace: change signature of arch_ptrace()") broke the um build. This patch fixes the issues. 0a3d763f1a68 introduced the undeclared variable "datavp". The patch seems completely untested. :-( 9b05a69e0534 changed arch_ptrace()'s signature but did not update um/include/asm/ptrace-generic.h. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Tested-by: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27ptrace: cleanup arch_ptrace() on umNamhyung Kim
Remove unnecessary castings using void pointer and fix copy_to_user() return value. Also add missing __user markup on the argument of arch_ptrctl(). Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27ptrace: change signature of arch_ptrace()Namhyung Kim
Fix up the arguments to arch_ptrace() to take account of the fact that @addr and @data are now unsigned long rather than long as of a preceding patch in this series. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26um: migrate from __do_IRQ() to generic_handle_irq()Richard Weinberger
This patch removes __do_IRQ() from user mode linux. __do_IRQ is deprecated. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26uml: fix CONFIG_STATIC_LINK=y build failure with newer glibcRoland McGrath
With glibc 2.11 or later that was built with --enable-multi-arch, the UML link fails with undefined references to __rel_iplt_start and similar symbols. In recent binutils, the default linker script defines these symbols (see ld --verbose). Fix the UML linker scripts to match the new defaults for these sections. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26um: remove PAGE_SIZE alignment in linker script causing kernel segfault.Richard Weinberger
The linker script cleanup that I did in commit 5d150a97f93 ("um: Clean up linker script using standard macros.") (2.6.32) accidentally introduced an ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE) when converting to use INIT_TEXT_SECTION; Richard Weinberger reported that this causes the kernel to segfault with CONFIG_STATIC_LINK=y. I'm not certain why this extra alignment is a problem, but it seems likely it is because previously __init_begin = _stext = _text = _sinittext and with the extra ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE), _sinittext becomes different from the rest. So there is likely a bug here where something is assuming that _sinittext is the same as one of those other symbols. But reverting the accidental change fixes the regression, so it seems worth committing that now. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Tested by: Antoine Martin <antoine@nagafix.co.uk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-22Merge branch 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bklLinus Torvalds
* 'config' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl: BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL. dabusb: remove the BKL sunrpc: remove the big kernel lock init/main.c: remove BKL notations blktrace: remove the big kernel lock rtmutex-tester: make it build without BKL dvb-core: kill the big kernel lock dvb/bt8xx: kill the big kernel lock tlclk: remove big kernel lock fix rawctl compat ioctls breakage on amd64 and itanic uml: kill big kernel lock parisc: remove big kernel lock cris: autoconvert trivial BKL users alpha: kill big kernel lock isapnp: BKL removal s390/block: kill the big kernel lock hpet: kill BKL, add compat_ioctl
2010-10-19uml: kill big kernel lockArnd Bergmann
Three uml device drivers still use the big kernel lock, but all of them can be safely converted to using a per-driver mutex instead. Most likely this is not even necessary, so after further review these can and should be removed as well. The exec system call no longer requires the BKL either, so remove it from there, too. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
2010-10-12Merge branch 'x86/urgent' of into irq/sparseirqThomas Gleixner
Reason: Pull in the latest io_apic bugfixes Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-09-23genirq: Cleanup irq_chip->typename leftoversThomas Gleixner
3 years transition phase is enough. Cleanup the last users and remove the cruft. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Leo Chen <leochen@broadcom.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
2010-09-22uml: fix compile warningRichard Weinberger
This fixes: incompatible pointer type: => 89 arch/um/kernel/exec.c: warning: passing argument 2 of 'execve1' from incompatible pointer type: => 69, 85 arch/um/kernel/exec.c: warning: passing argument 3 of 'execve1' from incompatible pointer type: => 69, 85 which was introduced by d7627467b7a8d ("Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer") Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-17Make do_execve() take a const filename pointerDavid Howells
Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles correctly on ARM: arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel(). do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as const should be fine. Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match. This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-13Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being constDavid Howells
Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but aren't. The list includes: (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes syscalls and some mount syscalls. (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above. (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits) no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list Fix sget() race with failing mount vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change BFS: clean up the superblock usage AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage cifs: truncate fallout mbcache: fix shrinker function return value mbcache: Remove unused features add f_flags to struct statfs(64) pass a struct path to vfs_statfs update VFS documentation for method changes. All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode() Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
2010-08-09arch/um/kernel/ptrace.c: remove dead PROC_MMChristoph Egger
PROC_MM doesn't exist in Kconfig. Looking around it looks like a left-over from 2.6.0 or even 2.4 times, last mentioned in a fedora patch for 2.6.10. I believe it's time to get rid of that last tiny parts here that are still around. Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge@cs.fau.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09Deal with missing exports for hostfsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-03um: Fix read_persistent_clock falloutThomas Gleixner
commit 9f31f57(um: Convert to use read_persistent_clock) moved the code, but not the variable. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-27um: Convert to use read_persistent_clockJohn Stultz
This patch converts the um arch to use read_persistent_clock(). This allows it to avoid accessing xtime and wall_to_monotonic directly. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-8-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-06-04arch/um: fix kunmap_atomic() call in skas/uaccess.cCesar Eduardo Barros
kunmap_atomic() takes a pointer to within the page, not the struct page. Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>