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2023-10-19file: convert to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCUChristian Brauner
In recent discussions around some performance improvements in the file handling area we discussed switching the file cache to rely on SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU which allows us to get rid of call_rcu() based freeing for files completely. This is a pretty sensitive change overall but it might actually be worth doing. The main downside is the subtlety. The other one is that we should really wait for Jann's patch to land that enables KASAN to handle SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU UAFs. Currently it doesn't but a patch for this exists. With SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU objects may be freed and reused multiple times which requires a few changes. So it isn't sufficient anymore to just acquire a reference to the file in question under rcu using atomic_long_inc_not_zero() since the file might have already been recycled and someone else might have bumped the reference. In other words, callers might see reference count bumps from newer users. For this reason it is necessary to verify that the pointer is the same before and after the reference count increment. This pattern can be seen in get_file_rcu() and __files_get_rcu(). In addition, it isn't possible to access or check fields in struct file without first aqcuiring a reference on it. Not doing that was always very dodgy and it was only usable for non-pointer data in struct file. With SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU it is necessary that callers first acquire a reference under rcu or they must hold the files_lock of the fdtable. Failing to do either one of this is a bug. Thanks to Jann for pointing out that we need to ensure memory ordering between reallocations and pointer check by ensuring that all subsequent loads have a dependency on the second load in get_file_rcu() and providing a fixup that was folded into this patch. Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2021-03-08coredump: don't bother with do_truncate()Al Viro
have dump_skip() just remember how much needs to be skipped, leave actual seeks/writing zeroes to the next dump_emit() or the end of coredump output, whichever comes first. And instead of playing with do_truncate() in the end, just write one NUL at the end of the last gap (if any). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-12-10file: Rename fcheck lookup_fd_rcuEric W. Biederman
Also remove the confusing comment about checking if a fd exists. I could not find one instance in the entire kernel that still matches the description or the reason for the name fcheck. The need for better names became apparent in the last round of discussion of this set of changes[1]. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wj8BQbgJFLa+J0e=iT-1qpmCRTbPAJ8gd6MJQ=kbRPqyQ@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120231441.29911-10-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2020-07-23powerpc/spufs: Fix the type of ret in spufs_arch_write_noteChristoph Hellwig
Both the ->dump method and snprintf return an int. So switch to an int and properly handle errors from ->dump. Fixes: 5456ffdee666 ("powerpc/spufs: simplify spufs core dumping") Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200610085554.5647-1-hch@lst.de
2020-07-22powerpc/spufs: Rework fcheck() usageMichael Ellerman
Currently the spu coredump code triggers an RCU warning: ============================= WARNING: suspicious RCU usage 5.7.0-rc3-01755-g7cd49f0b7ec7 #1 Not tainted ----------------------------- include/linux/fdtable.h:95 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1 1 lock held by spu-coredump/1343: #0: c0000007fa22f430 (sb_writers#2){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: .do_coredump+0x1010/0x13c8 stack backtrace: CPU: 0 PID: 1343 Comm: spu-coredump Not tainted 5.7.0-rc3-01755-g7cd49f0b7ec7 #1 Call Trace: .dump_stack+0xec/0x15c (unreliable) .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x120/0x144 .coredump_next_context+0x148/0x158 .spufs_coredump_extra_notes_size+0x54/0x190 .elf_coredump_extra_notes_size+0x34/0x50 .elf_core_dump+0xe48/0x19d0 .do_coredump+0xe50/0x13c8 .get_signal+0x864/0xd88 .do_notify_resume+0x158/0x3c8 .interrupt_exit_user_prepare+0x19c/0x208 interrupt_return+0x14/0x1c0 This comes from fcheck_files() via fcheck(). It's pretty clearly documented that fcheck() must be wrapped with rcu_read_lock(), adding that fixes the RCU warning. hch points out that once we've released the RCU read lock the file may be closed and freed, which would leave us with a pointer to a freed spu_context. To avoid that, take a reference to the spu_context while we hold the RCU read lock, and drop that reference later once we're done with the context. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200508130633.2532759-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
2020-05-05powerpc/spufs: simplify spufs core dumpingChristoph Hellwig
Replace the coredump ->read method with a ->dump method that must call dump_emit itself. That way we avoid a buffer allocation an messing with set_fs() to call into code that is intended to deal with user buffers. For the ->get case we can now use a small on-stack buffer and avoid memory allocations as well. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-05-30treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 153Thomas Gleixner
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 or at your option any later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc 675 mass ave cambridge ma 02139 usa extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 77 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel <armijn@tjaldur.nl> Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.837555891@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-06-01powerpc/spufs: Fix coredump of SPU contextsMichael Ellerman
If a process dumps core while it has SPU contexts active then we have code to also dump information about the SPU contexts. Unfortunately it's been broken for 3 1/2 years, and we didn't notice. In commit 7b1f4020d0d1 ("spufs: get rid of dump_emit() wrappers") the nread variable was removed and rc used instead. That means when the loop exits successfully, rc has the number of bytes read, but it's then used as the return value for the function, which should return 0 on success. So fix it by setting rc = 0 before returning in the success case. Fixes: 7b1f4020d0d1 ("spufs: get rid of dump_emit() wrappers") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-12-24Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globallyLinus Torvalds
This was entirely automated, using the script by Al: PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>' sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \ $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h) to do the replacement at the end of the merge window. Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-06-07coredump: fix dumping through pipesMateusz Guzik
The offset in the core file used to be tracked with ->written field of the coredump_params structure. The field was retired in favour of file->f_pos. However, ->f_pos is not maintained for pipes which leads to breakage. Restore explicit tracking of the offset in coredump_params. Introduce ->pos field for this purpose since ->written was already reused. Fixes: a00839395103 ("get rid of coredump_params->written"). Reported-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-05-12coredump: get rid of coredump_params->writtenOmar Sandoval
cprm->written is redundant with cprm->file->f_pos, so use that instead. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09new helper: dump_align()Al Viro
dump_skip to given alignment... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09spufs: get rid of dump_emit() wrappersAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09switch elf_coredump_extra_notes_write() to dump_emit()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-22new helper: file_inode(file)Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-26switch spufs/coredump to iterate_fd()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-02-19Wrap accesses to the fd_sets in struct fdtableDavid Howells
Wrap accesses to the fd_sets in struct fdtable (for recording open files and close-on-exec flags) so that we can move away from using fd_sets since we abuse the fd_set structs by not allocating the full-sized structure under normal circumstances and by non-core code looking at the internals of the fd_sets. The first abuse means that use of FD_ZERO() on these fd_sets is not permitted, since that cannot be told about their abnormal lengths. This introduces six wrapper functions for setting, clearing and testing close-on-exec flags and fd-is-open flags: void __set_close_on_exec(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt); void __clear_close_on_exec(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt); bool close_on_exec(int fd, const struct fdtable *fdt); void __set_open_fd(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt); void __clear_open_fd(int fd, struct fdtable *fdt); bool fd_is_open(int fd, const struct fdtable *fdt); Note that I've prepended '__' to the names of the set/clear functions because they require the caller to hold a lock to use them. Note also that I haven't added wrappers for looking behind the scenes at the the array. Possibly that should exist too. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120216174942.23314.1364.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-10-31powerpc: remove non-required uses of include <linux/module.h>Paul Gortmaker
None of the files touched here are modules, and they are not exporting any symbols either -- so there is no need to be including the module.h. Builds of all the files remains successful. Even kernel/module.c does not need to include it, since it includes linux/moduleloader.h instead. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-01-15powerpc: Use helpers for rlimitsJiri Slaby
Make sure compiler won't do weird things with limits. E.g. fetching them twice may return 2 different values after writable limits are implemented. I.e. either use rlimit helpers added in 3e10e716abf3c71bdb5d86b8f507f9e72236c9cd or ACCESS_ONCE if not applicable. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-01-13powerpc: Cleanup from l64 to ll64 change: arch codeStephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-05-01[PATCH] split linux/file.hAl Viro
Initial splitoff of the low-level stuff; taken to fdtable.h Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-03-28[POWERPC] spufs: fix incorrect file descriptors in SPU coredump note namesGerhard Stenzel
At present, ppu-gdb can't trace spu infomation with coredump generated by the kernel. While the core dumps notes have correct contents, they have the wrong names, as the file descriptors used to generate the note names are off-by-one. An application that opens a SPE context as fd 3, the current core dump code will generate notes like: SPU/4/mem SPU/4/regs etc. This confuses GDB, which knows it is looking for SPE context 3 (from parsing the spu_context_run system call arguments), and cannot find any notes that match context 3. This change corrects the file descriptor counting, to only increment the fd until after we've written the note name. Signed-off-by: Gerhard Stenzel <stenzel@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
2007-12-21[POWERPC] spufs: make state_mutex interruptibleChristoph Hellwig
Make most places that use spu_acquire/spu_acquire_saved interruptible, this allows getting out of the spufs code when e.g. pressing ctrl+c. There are a few places where we get called e.g. from spufs teardown routines were we can't simply err out so these are left with a comment. For now I've also not touched the poll routines because it's open what libspe would expect in terms of interrupted system calls. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-09-19[POWERPC] spufs: Respect RLIMIT_CORE in spu coredump codeMichael Ellerman
Currently the spu coredump code doesn't respect the ulimit, it should. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-09-19[POWERPC] spufs: Handle errors in SPU coredump code, and support coredump to ↵Michael Ellerman
a pipe Rework spufs_coredump_extra_notes_write() to check for and return errors. If we're coredumping to a pipe we can't trust file->f_pos, we need to maintain the foffset value passed to us. The cleanest way to do this is to have the low level write routine increment foffset when we've successfully written. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-09-19[POWERPC] spufs: Combine spufs_coredump_calls with spufs_callsMichael Ellerman
Because spufs might be built as a module, we can't have other parts of the kernel calling directly into it, we need stub routines that check first if the module is loaded. Currently we have two structures which hold callbacks for these stubs, the syscalls are in spufs_calls and the coredump calls are in spufs_coredump_calls. In both cases the logic for registering/unregistering is essentially the same, so we can simplify things by combining the two. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-09-19[POWERPC] spufs: Get rid of spufs_coredump_num_notes, it's not needed if we ↵Michael Ellerman
NULL terminate The spufs_coredump_read array is NULL terminated, and we also store the size. We only need one or the other, and the other arrays in file.c are NULL terminated, so do that. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-09-19[POWERPC] spufs: Correctly calculate the size of the local-store to dumpMichael Ellerman
The routine to dump the local store, __spufs_mem_read(), does not take the spu_lslr_RW value into account - so we shouldn't check it when we're calculating the size either. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-09-19[POWERPC] spufs: Write some SPU coredump values as ASCIIMichael Ellerman
Unfortunately GDB expects some of the SPU coredump values to be identical in format to what is found in spufs. This means we need to dump some of the values as ASCII strings, not the actual values. Because we don't know what the values will be, we always print the values with the format "0x%.16lx", that way we know the result will be 19 bytes. do_coredump_read() doesn't take a __user buffer, so remove the annotation, and because we know that it's safe to just snprintf() directly to it. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-09-19[POWERPC] spufs: Call spu_acquire_saved() before calculating the SPU note sizesMichael Ellerman
It makes sense to stop the SPU processes as soon as possible. Also if we dont acquire_saved() I think there's a possibility that the value in csa.priv2.spu_lslr_RW won't be accurate. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-09-19[POWERPC] spufs: Remove ctx_info and ctx_info_listMichael Ellerman
Remove the ctx_info struct entirely, and also the ctx_info_list. This fixes a race where two processes can clobber each other's ctx_info structs. Instead of using the list, we just repeat the search through the file descriptor table. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-09-19[POWERPC] spufs: Extract the file descriptor search logic in SPU coredump codeMichael Ellerman
Extract the logic for searching through the file descriptors for spu contexts into a separate routine, coredump_next_context(), so we can use it elsewhere in future. In the process we flatten the for loop, and move the NOSCHED test into coredump_next_context(). Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-07-20[CELL] spufs: make sure context are scheduled again after spu_acquire_savedChristoph Hellwig
Currently a process is removed from the physical spu when spu_acquire_saved is saved but never put back. This patch adds a new spu_release_saved that is to be paired with spu_acquire_saved and put the process back if it has been in RUNNABLE state before. Niether Jeremy not be are entirely happy about this exact patch because it adds another spu_activate call outside of the owner thread, but I feel this is the best short-term fix we can come up with. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-23[POWERPC] spufs: fix memory leak on coredumpArnd Bergmann
Dynamically allocated read/write buffer in spufs_arch_write_note() will not be freed. Convert it to get_free_page at the same time. Cc: Akinobu Mita <mita@fixstars.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2006-12-11[POWERPC] Fix SPU coredump code for max_fdset removalPaul Mackerras
Commit bbea9f69668a3d0cf9feba15a724cd02896f8675 removed the max_fdset element of struct fdtable. It appears that checking max_fds is sufficient now. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-12-04[POWERPC] coredump: Add SPU elf notes to coredump.Dwayne Grant McConnell
This patch adds SPU elf notes to the coredump. It creates a separate note for each of /regs, /fpcr, /lslr, /decr, /decr_status, /mem, /signal1, /signal1_type, /signal2, /signal2_type, /event_mask, /event_status, /mbox_info, /ibox_info, /wbox_info, /dma_info, /proxydma_info, /object-id. A new macro, ARCH_HAVE_EXTRA_NOTES, was created for architectures to specify they have extra elf core notes. A new macro, ELF_CORE_EXTRA_NOTES_SIZE, was created so the size of the additional notes could be calculated and added to the notes phdr entry. A new macro, ELF_CORE_WRITE_EXTRA_NOTES, was created so the new notes would be written after the existing notes. The SPU coredump code resides in spufs. Stub functions are provided in the kernel which are hooked into the spufs code which does the actual work via register_arch_coredump_calls(). A new set of __spufs_<file>_read/get() functions was provided to allow the coredump code to read from the spufs files without having to lock the SPU context for each file read from. Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dwayne Grant McConnell <decimal@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>