- 01 May, 2005 18 commits
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Some G3 CPUs can crash in funny way if a store from an FPU register instruction is executed on a register that has never been initialized since power on. This patch fixes it by making sure all FP registers have been properly initialized at kernel boot and when waking from sleep. It also makes the code that decides wether HID0_BTIC and HID0_DPM are allowed on a given CPU smarter (it can actually _clear_ them now if they are not allowed instead of just setting them when they are allowed in case the firmware got them wrong) Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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James Morris authored
This patch provides finer grained permissions for the audit family of Netlink sockets under SELinux. 1. We need a way to differentiate between privileged and unprivileged reads of kernel data maintained by the audit subsystem. The AUDIT_GET operation is unprivileged: it returns the current status of the audit subsystem (e.g. whether it's enabled etc.). The AUDIT_LIST operation however returns a list of the current audit ruleset, which is considered privileged by the audit folk. To deal with this, a new SELinux permission has been implemented and applied to the operation: nlmsg_readpriv, which can be allocated to appropriately privileged domains. Unprivileged domains would only be allocated nlmsg_read. 2. There is a requirement for certain domains to generate audit events from userspace. These events need to be collected by the kernel, collated and transmitted sequentially back to the audit daemon. An example is user level login, an auditable event under CAPP, where login-related domains generate AUDIT_USER messages via PAM which are relayed back to auditd via the kernel. To prevent handing out nlmsg_write permissions to such domains, a new permission has been added, nlmsg_relay, which is intended for this type of purpose: data is passed via the kernel back to userspace but no privileged information is written to the kernel. Also, AUDIT_LOGIN messages are now valid only for kernel->user messaging, so this value has been removed from the SELinux nlmsgtab (which is only used to check user->kernel messages). Signed-off-by:
James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Smalley authored
This patch removes the sclass argument from ipc_has_perm in the SELinux module, as it can be obtained from the ipc security structure. The use of a separate argument was a legacy of the older precondition function handling in SELinux and is obsolete. Please apply. Signed-off-by:
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akpm@osdl.org authored
In rare situations, drop_buffers() can be called for a page which has buffers, but no ->mapping (it was truncated, but the buffers were left behind because ext3 was still fiddling with them). But if there was an I/O error in a buffer_head, drop_buffers() will try to get at the address_space and will oops. Signed-off-by:
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Nikita Danilov authored
When ->writepage() returns WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE, the page is still locked. Explicitly unlock the page in mpage_writepages(). Signed-off-by:
Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by:
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Manfred Spraul authored
The patch makes the following function calls available to allocate memory on a specific node without changing the basic operation of the slab allocator: kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags, int node); kmalloc_node(size_t size, unsigned int flags, int node); in a similar way to the existing node-blind functions: kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags); kmalloc(size, flags); kmem_cache_alloc_node was changed to pass flags and the node information through the existing layers of the slab allocator (which lead to some minor rearrangements). The functions at the lowest layer (kmem_getpages, cache_grow) are already node aware. Also __alloc_percpu can call kmalloc_node now. Performance measurements (using the pageset localization patch) yields: w/o patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.27 100 484.2736 12.02 1.97 Wed Mar 30 20:50:43 2005 100 25170.83 91 251.7083 23.12 150.10 Wed Mar 30 20:51:06 2005 200 34601.66 84 173.0083 33.64 294.14 Wed Mar 30 20:51:40 2005 300 37154.47 86 123.8482 46.99 436.56 Wed Mar 30 20:52:28 2005 400 39839.82 80 99.5995 58.43 580.46 Wed Mar 30 20:53:27 2005 500 40036.32 79 80.0726 72.68 728.60 Wed Mar 30 20:54:40 2005 600 44074.21 79 73.4570 79.23 872.10 Wed Mar 30 20:55:59 2005 700 44016.60 78 62.8809 92.56 1015.84 Wed Mar 30 20:57:32 2005 800 40411.05 80 50.5138 115.22 1161.13 Wed Mar 30 20:59:28 2005 900 42298.56 79 46.9984 123.83 1303.42 Wed Mar 30 21:01:33 2005 1000 40955.05 80 40.9551 142.11 1441.92 Wed Mar 30 21:03:55 2005 with pageset localization and slab API patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.19 100 484.1930 12.02 1.98 Wed Mar 30 21:10:18 2005 100 27428.25 92 274.2825 21.22 149.79 Wed Mar 30 21:10:40 2005 200 37228.94 86 186.1447 31.27 293.49 Wed Mar 30 21:11:12 2005 300 41725.42 85 139.0847 41.84 434.10 Wed Mar 30 21:11:54 2005 400 43032.22 82 107.5805 54.10 582.06 Wed Mar 30 21:12:48 2005 500 42211.23 83 84.4225 68.94 722.61 Wed Mar 30 21:13:58 2005 600 40084.49 82 66.8075 87.12 873.11 Wed Mar 30 21:15:25 2005 700 44169.30 79 63.0990 92.24 1008.77 Wed Mar 30 21:16:58 2005 800 43097.94 79 53.8724 108.03 1155.88 Wed Mar 30 21:18:47 2005 900 41846.75 79 46.4964 125.17 1303.38 Wed Mar 30 21:20:52 2005 1000 40247.85 79 40.2478 144.60 1442.21 Wed Mar 30 21:23:17 2005 Signed-off-by:Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by:
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by:
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William Lee Irwin III authored
The smp_mb() is becaus sync_page() doesn't have PG_locked while it accesses page_mapping(page). The comments in the patch (the entire patch is the addition of this comment) try to explain further how and why smp_mb() is used. Signed-off-by:
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Chris Wright authored
Always use page counts when doing RLIMIT_MEMLOCK checking to avoid possible overflow. Signed-off-by:
Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
This is a patch for counting the number of pages for bounce buffers. It's shown in /proc/vmstat. Currently, the number of bounce pages are not counted anywhere. So, if there are many bounce pages, it seems that there are leaked pages. And it's difficult for a user to imagine the usage of bounce pages. So, it's meaningful to show # of bouce pages. Signed-off-by:
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nikita Danilov authored
Make the Locking document truer. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Use the new __GFP_NOMEMALLOC to simplify the previous handling of PF_MEMALLOC. Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Mempool is pretty clever. Looks too clever for its own good :) It shouldn't really know so much about page reclaim internals. - don't guess about what effective page reclaim might involve. - don't randomly flush out all dirty data if some unlikely thing happens (alloc returns NULL). page reclaim can (sort of :P) handle it. I think the main motivation is trying to avoid pool->lock at all costs. However the first allocation is attempted with __GFP_WAIT cleared, so it will be 'can_try_harder' if it hits the page allocator. So if allocation still fails, then we can probably afford to hit the pool->lock - and what's the alternative? Try page reclaim and hit zone->lru_lock? A nice upshot is that we don't need to do any fancy memory barriers or do (intentionally) racy access to pool-> fields outside the lock. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Mempools have 2 problems. The first is that mempool_alloc can possibly get stuck in __alloc_pages when they should opt to fail, and take an element from their reserved pool. The second is that it will happily eat emergency PF_MEMALLOC reserves instead of going to their reserved pools. Fix the first by passing __GFP_NORETRY in the allocation calls in mempool_alloc. Fix the second by introducing a __GFP_MEMPOOL flag which directs the page allocator not to allocate from the reserve pool. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Jack Steiner reported this to have fixed his problem (bad colouring): "The patches fix both problems that I found - bad coloring & excessive pages in pagesets." In most workloads this is not likely to be such a pronounced problem, however it should help corner cases. And avoiding powers of 2 in these types of memory operations is always a good idea. Signed-off-by:
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Nikita Danilov authored
mm/rmap.c:page_referenced_one() and mm/rmap.c:try_to_unmap_one() contain identical code that - takes mm->page_table_lock; - drills through page tables; - checks that correct pte is reached. Coalesce this into page_check_address() Signed-off-by:
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akpm@osdl.org authored
Address bug #4508: there's potential for wraparound in the various places where we perform RLIMIT_AS checking. (I'm a bit worried about acct_stack_growth(). Are we sure that vma->vm_mm is always equal to current->mm? If not, then we're comparing some other process's total_vm with the calling process's rlimits). Signed-off-by:
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akpm@osdl.org authored
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> points out: - It calls fault_in_pages_readable() which is completely bogus if @nr_segs > 1. It needs to be replaced by a to be written "fault_in_pages_readable_iovec()". - It increments @buf even in the iovec case thus @buf can point to random memory really quickly (in the iovec case) and then it calls fault_in_pages_readable() on this random memory. Signed-off-by:
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akpm@osdl.org authored
Fix a typo. James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 30 Apr, 2005 13 commits
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Sam Ravnborg authored
Move definition of NOSTDINC_FLAGS below inclusion of arch Makefile, so any arch specific settings to $(CC) takes effect before looking up the compiler include directory. The previous solution that replaced ':=' with '=' caused gcc to be invoked one additional time for each directory visited. This decreases kernel compile time with 0.1 second (3.6 -> 3.5 seconds) when running make on a fully built kernel Signed-off-by:
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by:
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Sam Ravnborg authored
Tom Rini said: Note that there is still a trivial'ish change to make. When mkimage doesn't exist on the host we should say "uImage not made" or something similar. So I did like Tom asked. Signed-off-by:
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Sam Ravnborg authored
Removing the dependency on vmlinux for the install target raised a few complaints, so instead a new target i added: kernel_install. kernel_install will install the kernel just like the ordinary install target. The only difference is that install has a dependency on vmlinux, kernel_install does not. Therefore kernel_install is the best choice when accessing the kernel over a NFS mount or as another user. kernel_install is similar to modules_install in the fact that neither does a full kernel compile before performing the install. In this way they are good for root use. Also added back the dependency on vmlinux for the install target so peoples scripts are no longer broken. Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Russell King authored
The documentation on these values seems to be rather wrong. These values have been determined by mere trial and error. Signed-off-by:Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King authored
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Russell King authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Steve French authored
Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com) Signed-off-by: -
Steve French authored
For older servers which do not support Unicode Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com) Signed-off-by: -
Paul Mackerras authored
When the kernel creates a signal frame on the user stack, it puts the old stack pointer value at the beginning so that the signal frame is linked into the chain of stack frames like any other frame. Unfortunately, for 32-bit processes we are writing the old stack pointer as a 64-bit value rather than a 32-bit value, and the process sees that as a null pointer, since it only looks at the first 32 bits, which are zero since ppc is bigendian and the stack pointer is below 4GB. This bug is in SLES9 and RHEL4 too, hence the ccs. This patch fixes the bug by making the signal code write the old stack pointer as a u32 instead of an unsigned long. Signed-off-by:
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
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Russell King authored
Add the PXA I2C platform device. Signed-off-by: -
Russell King authored
Allow RTC drivers to return error codes from their read_time or read_alarm methods. Signed-off-by:
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- 29 Apr, 2005 9 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Sascha Hauer authored
Patch from Sascha Hauer This patch adds UCFR_RFDIV setting into i.MX serial driver. This is required, if loader does not fully agree with Linux kernel about UART setup manner. Linux only blindly expected some values until now. This should enable to use even serial ports not recognized by boot-loader as for example third UART found in the bluethoot module. Patch also enables to detect original setup baudrate in more cases. Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer Signed-off-by:Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Lennert Buytenhek authored
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek The IXDP2800 is an evalution platform for the IXP2800 processor that has two IXP2800s connected to the same PCI bus. This is problematic as both CPUs will try to configure the PCI bus as they boot linux. Contrary to on the other IXP2000 platforms, the boot loader on the IXDP2800 doesn't configure the PCI bus properly, so we do want the linux instance on one of the CPUs to do that. Making one of the CPUs ignore the PCI bus (and thus act like a pure PCI slave device) is not an option because there is a 82559 NIC on the PCI bus for each of the CPUs. The chosen solution is to have the master CPU configure the PCI bus while the slave is kept in a quiescent state, and then to have the slave CPU scan the PCI bus (without assigning resources) while the master is kept in a quiescent state. After this ritual, the master deletes the slave NIC from its PCI device list, the slave deletes the master NIC from its device list, and (almost) all is well. There's still one little problem: each of the CPUs has a 1G SDRAM BAR, but the IXP2000 only has 512M of outbound PCI memory window. We solve this by hand-assigning the master and slave SDRAM BARs to a location outside each of the IXP's outbound PCI windows, and by having the rest of the BARs autoconfigured in the outbound PCI windows, in the range [e0000000..ffffffff], so that there is a 1:1 pci:phys mapping between them. Even with this patch, a number of issues still remain -- just imagine what happens if one of the CPUs is rebooted, by watchdog or by hand, but the other one isn't. But those issues are not easily fixable given the strange PCI layout of this board and the behavior of the boot loader shipped with the platform. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek Signed-off-by: -
George G. Davis authored
Patch from George G. Davis This patch is required for kernel XIP support on ARMv6 machines. It ensures that the access permission bits for kernel XIP section descriptors are APX=1 and AP[1:0]=01, which is Kernel read-only/User no access permissions. Prior to this change, kernel XIP section descriptor access permissions were set to Kernel no access/User no access on ARMv6 machines and the kernel would therefore hang upon entry to userspace when set_fs(USER_DS) was executed. Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam Signed-off-by: George G. Davis Signed-off-by: -
Olav Kongas authored
Patch from Olav Kongas On ARM, the outX() and writeX() families of macros take the result of cpu_to_leYY(), which is of restricted type __leYY, and feed it to __raw_writeX(), which expect an argument of unrestricted type. This results in 'sparse -Wbitwise' warnings about incorrect types in assignments. Analogous type mismatch warnings are issued for inX() and readX() counterparts. The below patch resolves these warnings by adding forced typecasts. Signed-off-by: Olav Kongas Signed-off-by: -
Nicolas Pitre authored
Patch from Nicolas Pitre This patch entirely reworks the kernel assistance for NPTL on ARM. In particular this provides an efficient way to retrieve the TLS value and perform atomic operations without any instruction emulation nor special system call. This even allows for pre ARMv6 binaries to be forward compatible with SMP systems without any penalty. The problematic and performance critical operations are performed through segment of kernel provided user code reachable from user space at a fixed address in kernel memory. Those fixed entry points are within the vector page so we basically get it for free as no extra memory page is required and nothing else may be mapped at that location anyway. This is different from (but doesn't preclude) a full blown VDSO implementation, however a VDSO would prevent some assembly tricks with constants that allows for efficient branching to those code segments. And since those code segments only use a few cycles before returning to user code, the overhead of a VDSO far call would add a significant overhead to such minimalistic operations. The ARM_NR_set_tls syscall also changed number. This is done for two reasons: 1) this patch changes the way the TLS value was previously meant to be retrieved, therefore we ensure whatever library using the old way gets fixed (they only exist in private tree at the moment since the NPTL work is still progressing). 2) the previous number was allocated in a range causing an undefined instruction trap on kernels not supporting that syscall and it was determined that allocating it in a range returning -ENOSYS would be much nicer for libraries trying to determine if the feature is present or not. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Signed-off-by: -
George G. Davis authored
Patch from George G. Davis As noted in http://www.arm.com/linux/patch-2.6.9-arm1.gz, the "Faulty SWP instruction on 1136 doesn't set bit 11 in DFSR." So the v6_early_abort handler does not report the correct rd/wr direction for the SWP instruction which may result in SEGVS or hangs. In order to work around this problem, this patch merely updates the fix contained in the ARM Ltd. patch to use the macroised abort handler fixups. Signed-off-by: George G. Davis Signed-off-by:
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Lennert Buytenhek authored
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek Assigning the address zero to a PCI device BAR causes some part of the PCI subsystem to believe that resource allocation for that BAR failed due to resource conflicts, which will make attempts to enable the device fail. Work around this by assigning I/O addresses starting from 00010000. While we're at it, make the PCI I/O resource end at 0001ffff, since we only have 64k of outbound I/O window on the IXP2000, and we don't do bank switching. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena Signed-off-by:
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