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2006-05-01[PATCH] timer TSC check suspend notifier changeShaohua Li
At suspend time, the TSC CPUFREQ_SUSPENDCHANGE notifier change might wrongly enable interrupt. cpufreq driver suspend/resume is in interrupt disabled environment. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] x86_64: make PC Speaker driver workMikael Pettersson
The PC Speaker driver's ->probe() routine doesn't even get called in the 64-bit kernels. The reason for that is that the arch code apparently has to explictly add a "pcspkr" platform device in order for the driver core to call the ->probe() routine. arch/i386/kernel/setup.c unconditionally adds a "pcspkr" device, but the x86_64 kernel has no code at all related to the PC Speaker. The patch below copies the relevant code from i386 to x86_64, which makes the PC Speaker work for me on x86_64. Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] s390: bug in setup_rt_frameHeiko Carstens
Consider return value of __put_user() when setting up a signal frame instead of ignoring it. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] powerpc: cell: Add numa id to struct spuJeremy Kerr
Add an nid member to the spu structure, and store the numa id of the spu there on creation. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] powerpc: Allow devices to register with numa topologyJeremy Kerr
Change of_node_to_nid() to traverse the device tree, looking for a numa id. Cell uses this to assign ids to SPUs, which are children of the CPU node. Existing users of of_node_to_nid() are altered to use of_node_to_nid_single(), which doesn't do the traversal. Export an attach_sysdev_to_node() function, allowing system devices (eg. SPUs) to link themselves into the numa topology in sysfs. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] spufs: fix for CONFIG_NUMAJoel H Schopp
Based on an older patch from Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com> We need to have a mem_map for high addresses in order to make fops->no_page work on spufs mem and register files. So far, we have used the memory_present() function during early bootup, but that did not work when CONFIG_NUMA was enabled. We now use the __add_pages() function to add the mem_map when loading the spufs module, which is a lot nicer. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] uml: uml-makefile-nicer uses SYMLINK incorrectlyJeff Dike
Blaisorblade's uml-makefile-nicer makes a V=0 build say SYMLINK where what's happening is really a LINK. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Acked-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] uml: export symbols added by GCC hardenedPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
GCC hardened introduces additional symbol refererences (for the canary and friends), also in modules - add weak export_symbols for them. We already tested that the weak declaration creates no problem on both GCC's providing the function definition and on GCC's which don't provide it. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] uml: cleanup unprofile expression and build infrastructurePaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
*) Rather than duplicate in various buggy ways the application of CFLAGS_NO_HARDENING and UNPROFILE (which apply to the same files), centralize it in Makefile.rules. UNPROFILE_OBJS mustn't be listed in USER_OBJS but are compiled as such. I've also verified that unprofile didn't work in the current form, because we set _c_flags directly (using CFLAGS and not USER_CFLAGS, which is wrong), which is normally used by c_flags, but we also override c_flags for all USER_OBJS, and there we don't call unprofile. Instead it only worked for unmap.o, the only one which wasn't a USER_OBJ. We need to set c_flags (which is not a public Kbuild API) to clear a lot of compilation flags like -nostdinc which Kbuild forces on everything. *) Rather than $(CFLAGS_$(notdir $@)), which expands to CFLAGS_anObj.s when building "anObj.s", use $(CFLAGS_$(*F).o) which always accesses CFLAGS_anObj.o, like done by Kbuild. *) Make c_flags apply to all targets having the same basename, rather than listing .s, .i, .lst and .o, with the use (which I tested) of $(USER_OBJS:.o=.%): c_flags = ... and of - $(obj)/unmap.c: _c_flags = ... + $(obj)/unmap.%: _c_flags = ... Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] uml: fix compilation and execution with hardened GCCPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
To make some half-assembly stubs compile, disable various "hardened" GCC features: *) we can't make it build PIC code as we need %ebx to do syscalls and GCC wants it free for PIC *) we can't leave stack protection as the stub is moved (not relocated!) in memory so the RIP-relative access to the canary tries reading from an unmapped address and causes a segfault, since we move the stub of various megabytes (the exact amount will be decided at runtime) away from the link-time address. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] uml: use Kbuild tracking for all files and fix compilation outputPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Move the build of user-offsets to arch/um/sys-$(SUBARCH), where it's located. So we can also build it via Kbuild with its dependency tracking rather than by hand. While hacking here, fix also a lot of little cosmetic things. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] uml: search from uml_net in a more reasonable PATHMattia Dongili
Append /usr/lib/uml to the existing PATH environment variable to let execvp() search uml_net in FHS compliant locations. Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] uml: fix patch mismergePaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
I sent a patch, it was applied as cda402b283c34a24b091f78eee116963e9494762, then it was applied again as 181ae4005d0a4010802be534d929b38c42b9ac06 by mistake. But while the 1st time it modified (correctly) cow_header_v3, the 2nd it modified cow_header_v3_broken. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] uml: error handling fixesJeff Dike
Blairsorblade noticed some confusion between our use of a system call's return value and errno. This patch fixes a number of related bugs - using errno instead of a return value using a return value instead of errno forgetting to negate a error return to get a positive error code Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] uml: update defconfigJeff Dike
Bring defconfig up to date. Also disable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC by default. By performing synchronous I/O to the host, it slows things down, only protects against host crashes, and can make a UML appear to hang while it waits for the host's disk. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] uml: clean up after MADVISE_REMOVEJeff Dike
The MADVISE_REMOVE-checking code didn't clean up after itself. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] uml: remove NULL checks and add some CodingStyleJesper Juhl
Remove redundant NULL checks before [kv]free + small CodingStyle cleanup for arch/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] uml: skas0 support for 2G/2G hostsJoris van Rantwijk
A quick hack to allow skas0 mode to run on 2G/2G hosts. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] uml: fix iomem list traversalVictor V. Vengerov
We need to walk the region list properly. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] i386: Remove apic= warningAndi Kleen
The apic= option can be used to set the APIC driver too. When that is done this code would always produce bogus warnings. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] i386: Fix overflow in e820_all_mappedAndi Kleen
The 32bit version of e820_all_mapped() needs to use u64 to avoid overflows on PAE systems. Pointed out by Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix ACPI disabled LAPIC handling mismergeAndi Kleen
The patch I submitted earlier to fix disabled LAPIC handling in ACPI was mismerged for some reason I still don't quite understand. Parts of it was applied to the wrong function. This patch fixes it up. Cc: <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] x86_64: Add compat_sys_vmsplice and use it in x86-64Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-30[SPARC64]: Disable preemption during flush_tlb_pending().David S. Miller
A context switch will force a call to flush_tlb_pending() (via switch_to()), so if we test tlb_nr to be non-zero, then sleep, it would become zero and later back at the original context we'll pass zero down into the TLB flushing code which should never see a nr argument of zero. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-29Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [PATCH] powerpc: update cell_defconfig [PATCH] spufs: Disable local interrupts for SPE hash_page calls. [PATCH] powerpc: Add cputable entry for POWER6 [PATCH] ppc32 CPM_UART: Fixed odd address translations [PATCH] ppc32: Update board-specific code of the CPM UART users [PATCH] ppc32 CPM_UART: Convert to use platform devices [PATCH] ppc32: odd fixes and improvements in ppc_sys [PATCH] powerpc: Wire up *at syscalls [PATCH] ppc32: add 440GX erratum 440_43 workaround [PATCH] powerpc: Use check_legacy_ioport() on ppc32 too. [PATCH] powerpc64: Fix loading of modules without a .toc section [PATCH] sound/ppc: snd_pmac_toonie_init should be __init powerpc/pseries: Tell firmware our capabilities on new machines [PATCH] powerpc: Fix pagetable bloat for hugepages
2006-04-29[PATCH] powerpc: update cell_defconfigArnd Bergmann
reflect the changes to Kconfig since the last update. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-29[PATCH] spufs: Disable local interrupts for SPE hash_page calls.Arnd Bergmann
This patch disables and saves local interrupts during hash_page processing for SPE contexts. We have to do it explicitly in the spu_irq_class_1_bottom function. For the interrupt handlers, we get the behaviour implicitly by using SA_INTERRUPT to disable interrupts while in the handler. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-29[PATCH] powerpc: Add cputable entry for POWER6Anton Blanchard
Add a cputable entry for the POWER6 processor. The SIHV and SIPR bits in the mmcra have moved in POWER6, so disable support for that until oprofile is fixed. Also tell firmware that we know about POWER6. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-28[PATCH] s390: new system callsMartin Schwidefsky
Add sys_set_robust_list, sys_get_robust_list, sys_splice, sys_sync_file and sys_tee system calls. 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>
2006-04-28[PATCH] s390: add read_mostly optimizationChristian Borntraeger
Add a read_mostly section and define __read_mostly to prevent cache line pollution due to writes for mostly read variables. In addition fix the incorrect alignment of the cache_line_aligned data section. s390 has a cacheline size of 256 bytes. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com> 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>
2006-04-28[PATCH] s390: segment operation error codesGerald Schaefer
Print a warning with the z/VM error code if segment_load, segment_type or segment_save fail to ease the problem determination. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com> 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>
2006-04-28[PATCH] s390: alternate signal stack handling bugLaurent Meyer
If a signal handler has been established with the SA_ONSTACK option but no alternate stack is provided with sigaltstack(), the kernel still tries to install the alternate stack. Also when setting an alternate stack with sigalstack() and the SS_DISABLE flag, the kernel tries to install the alternate stack on signal delivery. Use the correct conditions sas_ss_flags() to check if the alternate stack has to be used. Signed-off-by: Laurent Meyer <meyerlau@fr.ibm.com> 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>
2006-04-28[PATCH] kprobe: fix resume execution on i386Masami Hiramatsu
Fix resume_execution() to handle iret and absolute jump opcode correctly on i386. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Yumiko Sugita <sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com> Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-28[PATCH] kprobe cleanup for VM_MASK judgementmao, bibo
When trap happens in user space, kprobe_exceptions_notify() funtion will skip it. This patch deletes some unnecessary code for VM_MASK judgement in eflags. Signed-off-by: bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Yumiko Sugita <sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com> Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-28[PATCH] Mark VMSPLIT EMBEDDEDAndi Kleen
Running abnormal VM splits causes weird problems - people can set non-standard splits by accident, then lots of time gets wasted diagnosing it - see the long "[stable] 2.6.16.6 breaks java... sort of" email thread. So we need to make this option harder to set. Use CONFIG_EMBEDDED for this. CONFIG_EMBEDDED isn't really the right thing to use, but there's nothing else obvious and avoiding these problems is more important than Kconfig purity. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-28[PATCH] enable X86_PC for HOTPLUG_CPUAshok Raj
CPU_HOTPLUG has race conditions when we use broadcast mode IPI. - First we introduced no_broadcast option (see include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_ipi.h) - x86_64 solved it by using physical flat mode (same as bigsmp on i386) since this will not use broadcast shortcuts for IPI. - We switched to use bigsmp on i386 so that we can have same handling as x86_64, but apparently this caused an error message, if kernel was compiled without X86_GENERICARCH, X86_BIGSMP. The message "You have >8 CPUS..." which was bogus and misleading, and only indicated one of the above ARCH wasnt selected. So we do not switch to automatic bigsmp for HOTPLUG_CPU support in i386 until the other related config dependencies for SMP_SUSPEND etc can be done right. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-28[PATCH] Avoid printing pointless tsc skew msgsDave Jones
These messages are kinda silly.. CPU#0 had 0 usecs TSC skew, fixed it up. CPU#1 had 0 usecs TSC skew, fixed it up. inspired from: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=7713&action=view Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-28[PATCH] ppc32: Update board-specific code of the CPM UART usersVitaly Bordug
This has the relevant updates/additions to the BSP code so that proper platform_info struct well be passed to the CPM UART drivers. The changes covered mpc866ads, mpc885ads and mpc8272ads. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-28[PATCH] ppc32: odd fixes and improvements in ppc_sysVitaly Bordug
This consists of offsets fix in ..._devices.c, and update of ppc_sys_fixup_mem_resource() function to prevent subsequent fixups Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-28[PATCH] powerpc: Wire up *at syscallsAndreas Schwab
Wire up *at syscalls. This patch has been tested on ppc64 (using glibc's testsuite, both 32bit and 64bit), and compile-tested for ppc32 (I have currently no ppc32 system available, but I expect no problems). Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-28[PATCH] ppc32: add 440GX erratum 440_43 workaroundEugene Surovegin
This patch adds workaround for PPC 440GX erratum 440_43. According to this erratum spurious MachineChecks (caused by L1 cache parity) can happen during DataTLB miss processing. We disable L1 cache parity checking for 440GX rev.C and rev.F Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-28[PATCH] powerpc: Use check_legacy_ioport() on ppc32 too.David Woodhouse
Some people report that we die on some Macs when we are expecting to catch machine checks after poking at some random I/O address. I'd seen it happen on my dual G4 with serial ports until we fixed those to use OF, but now other users are reporting it with i8042. This expands the use of check_legacy_ioport() to avoid that situation even on 32-bit kernels. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-28[PATCH] powerpc64: Fix loading of modules without a .toc sectionAlan Modra
Normally, ppc64 module .ko files contain a table-of-contents (.toc) section, but if the module doesn't reference any static or external data or external procedures, it is possible for gcc/binutils to generate a .ko that doesn't have a .toc. Currently the module loader refuses to load such a module, since it needs the address of the .toc section to use in relocations. This patch fixes the problem by using the address of the .stubs section instead, which is an acceptable substitute in this situation. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-28powerpc/pseries: Tell firmware our capabilities on new machinesPaul Mackerras
This adds code to call a new firmware method to tell the firmware what machines and capabilities (such as VMX/Altivec) we support. This will be needed on POWER5+ and POWER6 machines, and it has no effect on past and current machines. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-28[PATCH] powerpc: Fix pagetable bloat for hugepagesDavid Gibson
At present, ARCH=powerpc kernels can waste considerable space in pagetables when making large hugepage mappings. Hugepage PTEs go in PMD pages, but each PMD page maps 256M and so contains only 16 hugepage PTEs (128 bytes of data), but takes up a 1024 byte allocation. With CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES enabled (64k base page size), the situation is worse. Now hugepage PTEs are at the PTE page level (also mapping 256M), so we store 16 hugepage PTEs in a 64k allocation. The PowerPC MMU already means that any 256M region is either all hugepage, or all normal pages. Thus, with some care, we can use a different allocation for the hugepage PTE tables and only allocate the 128 bytes necessary. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-27Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] update sn2 defconfig [IA64] Add mca recovery failure messages [IA64-SGI] fix SGI Altix tioce_reserve_m32() bug [IA64] enable dumps to capture second page of kernel stack [IA64-SGI] - Reduce overhead of reading sn_topology [IA64-SGI] - Fix discover of nearest cpu node to IO node [IA64] IOC4 config option ordering [IA64] Setup an IA64 specific reclaim distance [IA64] eliminate compile time warnings [IA64] eliminate compile time warnings [IA64-SGI] SN SAL call to inject memory errors [IA64] - Fix MAX_PXM_DOMAINS for systems with > 256 nodes [IA64] Remove unused variable in sn_sal.h [IA64] Remove redundant NULL checks before kfree [IA64] wire up compat_sys_adjtimex()
2006-04-27[IA64] update sn2 defconfigJes Sorensen
Update SN2 defconfig to latest kernel and add QLA FC drivers commonly found in SN2 boxes. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-04-27[IA64] Add mca recovery failure messagesRuss Anderson
When the mca recovery code encounters a condition that makes the MCA non-recoverable, print the reason it could not recover. This will make it easier to identify why the recovery code did not recover. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-04-27[IA64-SGI] fix SGI Altix tioce_reserve_m32() bugMike Habeck
The following patch fixes a bug in the SGI Altix tioce_reserve_m32() code. The bug was that we could walking past the end of the CE ASIC 32/40bit PMU ATE Buffer, resulting in a PIO Reply Error. Signed-off-by: Mike Habeck <habeck@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-04-27[IA64-SGI] - Reduce overhead of reading sn_topologyJack Steiner
MPI programs using certain debug options have a long startup time. This was traced to a "vmalloc/vfree" in the code that reads /proc/sgi_sn/sn_topology. On large systems, vfree requires an IPI to all cpus to do TLB purging. Replace the vmalloc/vfree with kmalloc/kfree. Although the size of the structure being allocated is unknown, it will not not exceed 96 bytes. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>