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2012-11-28flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-11-28avr32: sanitize copy_thread(), switch to generic fork/vfork/clone, kill wrappersAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-15avr32: switch to generic sys_execve()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-15avr32: switch to generic kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return itJeff Layton
getname() is intended to copy pathname strings from userspace into a kernel buffer. The result is just a string in kernel space. It would however be quite helpful to be able to attach some ancillary info to the string. For instance, we could attach some audit-related info to reduce the amount of audit-related processing needed. When auditing is enabled, we could also call getname() on the string more than once and not need to recopy it from userspace. This patchset converts the getname()/putname() interfaces to return a struct instead of a string. For now, the struct just tracks the string in kernel space and the original userland pointer for it. Later, we'll add other information to the struct as it becomes convenient. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-01sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()Thomas Gleixner
Coccinelle based conversion. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-24swm5zut3h9c4a6s46x8rws@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
2011-01-13avr32: make architecture sys_clone prototype match asm-generic prototypeHans-Christian Egtvedt
This patch will fix the arguments to the architecture sys_clone() function to match the asm-generic/syscalls.h prototype. In the same go remove the architecture specific prototype for the same function. The sys_clone() function is only called from assembly, hence the argument types were not having any affect. Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
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>
2010-03-30include 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>
2009-06-18ptrace: remove PT_DTRACE from avr32, mn10300, parisc, s390, sh, xtensaOleg Nesterov
avr32, mn10300, parisc, s390, sh, xtensa: They never set PT_DTRACE, but clear it after do_execve(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02Simplify copy_thread()Alexey Dobriyan
First argument unused since 2.3.11. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-17avr32: Introducing asm/syscalls.hJaswinder Singh
Declaring arch-dependent syscalls for avr32 architecture Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-10-08avr32: Minor pm_power_off cleanupHaavard Skinnemoen
Include <linux/pm.h> to see the declaration of pm_power_off, and remove unneeded NULL initializer. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-08-05avr32: Use <mach/foo.h> instead of <asm/arch/foo.h>Haavard Skinnemoen
Update all avr32-specific files to use the new platform-specific header locations. Drivers shared with ARM are left alone for now. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-07-18nohz: prevent tick stop outside of the idle loopThomas Gleixner
Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing problem in the NOHZ code: scheduler switch to idle task enable interrupts Window starts here ----> interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED) irq_exit() stops the tick ----> interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED) return from schedule() cpu_idle(): preempt_disable(); Window ends here The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick disabled. The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric. Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure that we can not run into such a situation ever again. cpu_idle() { preempt_disable(); while(1) { tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); <- tell NOHZ code that we are in the idle loop while (!need_resched()) halt(); tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); <- disables NOHZ mode preempt_enable_no_resched(); schedule(); preempt_disable(); } } In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ... /me grabs a large brown paperbag. Debugged-by: Jack Ren <jack.ren@marvell.com>, Debugged-by: eric miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-19avr32: Add hardware power-down function callPeter Ma
This patch adds in the indirect call to pm_power_off(), as is done in other architectures (e.g. ARM). Tested on NGW100, with custom board with GPIO control over main DC power. Signed-off-by: Peter Ma <pma@mediamatech.com> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-04-19avr32: Move sleep code into mach-at32apHaavard Skinnemoen
Create a new file, pm-at32ap700x.S, in mach-at32ap and move the CPU idle sleep code there. Make it possible to disable the sleep code. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-02-27avr32: Fix OCD refcounting bugHaavard Skinnemoen
Iff the parent has TIF_DEBUG set, _and_ clone_flags includes CLONE_PTRACE we should set the TIF_DEBUG flag for the child and increment the ocd refcount. Otherwise, the TIF_DEBUG flag must be unset. Currently, the child inherits TIF_DEBUG from the parent before copy_thread is called, so TIF_DEBUG may be already be set before we determine whether the child is supposed to inherit debugging capabilities from the parent or not. This means that ocd_enable() won't increment the refcount, because TIF_DEBUG is already set, and that TIF_DEBUG will be set for processes that aren't being debugged. This leads to a refcounting asymmetry, which may show up as ------------[ cut here ]------------ Badness at arch/avr32/kernel/ocd.c:73 PC is at ocd_disable+0x34/0x60 LR is at put_lock_stats+0xa/0x20 as reported by David Brownell. Happens when strace'ing a process that forks a new child process, e.g. "strace mount -tjffs2 mtd1 /mnt", and subsequently killing the child process (e.g. "umount /mnt".) Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-02-15avr32: Call tick_nohz_{stop,restart}_sched_tick() in idle loopHaavard Skinnemoen
This fixes a hang on boot with nohz enabled. nohz is not actually supported in mainline yet, but patches that add support for it are currently under review. When nohz is compiled out, the functions are no-ops, so this patch results in no functional change, but it arguably makes the code more correct. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-01-25[AVR32] Enable debugging only when neededHaavard Skinnemoen
Keep track of processes being debugged (including the kernel itself) and turn the OCD system on and off as appropriate. Since enabling debugging turns off some optimizations in the CPU core, this fixes the issue that enabling KProbes support or simply running a program under gdbserver will reduce system performance significantly until the next reboot. The CPU performance will still be reduced for all processes while a process is being debugged, but this is a lot better than reducing the performance forever. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-12-07[AVR32] Clean up OCD register usageHaavard Skinnemoen
Generate a new set of OCD register definitions in asm/ocd.h and rename __mfdr() and __mtdr() to ocd_read() and ocd_write() respectively. The bitfield definitions are a lot more complete now, and they are entirely based on bit numbers, not masks. This is because OCD registers are frequently accessed from assembly code, where bit numbers are a lot more useful (can be fed directly to sbr, bfins, etc.) Bitfields that consist of more than one bit have two definitions: _START, which indicates the number of the first bit, and _SIZE, which indicates the number of bits. These directly correspond to the parameters taken by the bfextu, bfexts and bfins instructions. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-12-07[AVR32] Fix invalid status register bit definitions in asm/ptrace.hHaavard Skinnemoen
The 'H' bit is bit 29, while the 'R' bit doesn't exist. Luckily, we don't actually use any of the bits in question. Also update show_regs() to show the Debug Mask and Debug state bits. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-05-09wrap access to thread_infoRoman Zippel
Recently a few direct accesses to the thread_info in the task structure snuck back, so this wraps them with the appropriate wrapper. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-27[AVR32] Clean up exception handling codeHaavard Skinnemoen
* Use generic BUG() handling * Remove some useless debug statements * Use a common function _exception() to send signals or oops when an exception can't be handled. This makes sure init doesn't enter an infinite exception loop as well. Borrowed from powerpc. * Add some basic exception tracing support to the page fault code. * Rework dump_stack(), show_regs() and friends and move everything into process.c * Print information about configuration options and chip type when oopsing Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2007-04-27[AVR32] Put cpu in sleep 0 when idle.Hans-Christian Egtvedt
This patch puts the CPU in sleep 0 when doing nothing, idle. This will turn of the CPU clock and thus save power. The CPU is waken again when an interrupt occurs. Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2006-12-08[AVR32] Put the chip in "stop" mode when halting the systemHaavard Skinnemoen
Make machine_halt() execute a sleep instruction to put the chip in "stop" mode when the system is halted. This switches off all clocks except the 32 kHz oscillator, which is needed for the RTC to keep ticking. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2006-09-26[PATCH] avr32 architectureHaavard Skinnemoen
This adds support for the Atmel AVR32 architecture as well as the AT32AP7000 CPU and the AT32STK1000 development board. AVR32 is a new high-performance 32-bit RISC microprocessor core, designed for cost-sensitive embedded applications, with particular emphasis on low power consumption and high code density. The AVR32 architecture is not binary compatible with earlier 8-bit AVR architectures. The AVR32 architecture, including the instruction set, is described by the AVR32 Architecture Manual, available from http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc32000.pdf The Atmel AT32AP7000 is the first CPU implementing the AVR32 architecture. It features a 7-stage pipeline, 16KB instruction and data caches and a full Memory Management Unit. It also comes with a large set of integrated peripherals, many of which are shared with the AT91 ARM-based controllers from Atmel. Full data sheet is available from http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc32003.pdf while the CPU core implementation including caches and MMU is documented by the AVR32 AP Technical Reference, available from http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc32001.pdf Information about the AT32STK1000 development board can be found at http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3918 including a BSP CD image with an earlier version of this patch, development tools (binaries and source/patches) and a root filesystem image suitable for booting from SD card. Alternatively, there's a preliminary "getting started" guide available at http://avr32linux.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GettingStarted which provides links to the sources and patches you will need in order to set up a cross-compiling environment for avr32-linux. This patch, as well as the other patches included with the BSP and the toolchain patches, is actively supported by Atmel Corporation. [dmccr@us.ibm.com: Fix more pxx_page macro locations] [bunk@stusta.de: fix `make defconfig'] Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>