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* oom: remove references to old badness() functionDavid Rientjes2011-07-252-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The badness() function in the oom killer was renamed to oom_badness() in a63d83f427fb ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite") since it is a globally exported function for clarity. The prototype for the old function still existed in linux/oom.h, so remove it. There are no existing users. Also fixes documentation and comment references to badness() and adjusts them accordingly. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: remove the leftovers of noswapaccountWANG Cong2011-07-251-16/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | In commit a2c8990aed5ab ("memsw: remove noswapaccount kernel parameter"), Michal forgot to remove some left pieces of noswapaccount in the tree, this patch removes them all. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds2011-07-244-0/+335
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (237 commits) ARM: 7004/1: fix traps.h compile warnings ARM: 6998/2: kernel: use proper memory barriers for bitops ARM: 6997/1: ep93xx: increase NR_BANKS to 16 for support of 128MB RAM ARM: Fix build errors caused by adding generic macros ARM: CPU hotplug: ensure we migrate all IRQs off a downed CPU ARM: CPU hotplug: pass in proper affinity mask on IRQ migration ARM: GIC: avoid routing interrupts to offline CPUs ARM: CPU hotplug: fix abuse of irqdesc->node ARM: 6981/2: mmci: adjust calculation of f_min ARM: 7000/1: LPAE: Use long long printk format for displaying the pud ARM: 6999/1: head, zImage: Always Enter the kernel in ARM state ARM: btc: avoid invalidating the branch target cache on kernel TLB maintanence ARM: ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE is no more ARM: mach-shark: move ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE to mdesc->dma_zone_size ARM: mach-sa1100: move ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE to mdesc->dma_zone_size ARM: mach-realview: move from ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE to mdesc->dma_zone_size ARM: mach-pxa: move from ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE to mdesc->dma_zone_size ARM: mach-ixp4xx: move from ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE to mdesc->dma_zone_size ARM: mach-h720x: move from ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE to mdesc->dma_zone_size ARM: mach-davinci: move from ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE to mdesc->dma_zone_size ...
| * Merge branch 'devel-stable' into for-nextRussell King2011-07-221-0/+267
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
| | * Merge branch 'kprobes-thumb' of git://git.yxit.co.uk/linux into devel-stableRussell King2011-07-1512-79/+117
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| | * \ Merge branch 'cmpxchg64' of git://git.linaro.org/people/nico/linux into ↵Russell King2011-06-281-0/+267
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| | | * | ARM: add a kuser_cmpxchg64 user space helperNicolas Pitre2011-06-281-0/+64
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some user space applications are designed around the ability to perform atomic operations on 64 bit values. Since this is natively possible only with ARMv6k and above, let's provide a new kuser helper to perform the operation with kernel supervision on pre ARMv6k hardware. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Tested-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
| | | * | ARM: kuser: move interface documentation out of the source codeNicolas Pitre2011-06-201-0/+203
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Digging into some assembly file in order to get information about the kuser helpers is not that convivial. Let's move that information to a better formatted file in Documentation/arm/ and improve on it a bit. Thanks to Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> for the initial cleanup and clarifications. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Acked-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
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| *-------. \ \ \ Merge branches 'btc', 'dma', 'entry', 'fixes', 'linker-layout', 'misc', ↵Russell King2011-07-2220-140/+202
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| | | | | | * | | ARM: 6999/1: head, zImage: Always Enter the kernel in ARM stateDave Martin2011-07-191-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, the documented kernel entry requirements are not explicit about whether the kernel should be entered in ARM or Thumb, leading to an ambiguitity about how to enter Thumb-2 kernels. As a result, the kernel is reliant on the zImage decompressor to enter the kernel proper in the correct instruction set state. This patch changes the boot entry protocol for head.S and Image to be the same as for zImage: in all cases, the kernel is now entered in ARM. Documentation/arm/Booting is updated to reflect this new policy. A different rule will be needed for Cortex-M class CPUs as and when support for those lands in mainline, since these CPUs don't support the ARM instruction set at all: a note is added to the effect that the kernel must be entered in Thumb on such systems. Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| | | | | | * | | ARM: 6976/1: pmu: add OF probing supportMark Rutland2011-06-291-0/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is based on an earlier patch from Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> > Add OF match table to enable OF style driver binding. The dts entry is like > this: > > pmu { > compatible = "arm,cortex-a9-pmu"; > interrupts = <100 101>; > }; > > The use of pdev->id as an index breaks with OF device binding, so set the type > based on the OF compatible string. This modification sets the PMU hardware type based on data embedded in the binding, allowing easy addition of new PMU types in future. Support for new PMU types not provided by devicetree can be added later using platform_device_id tables in a similar fashion. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com> Acked-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| | | | | | * | | ARM: 6886/1: mmc, Add zboot from eSD support for SuperH Mobile ARMSimon Horman2011-06-291-0/+42
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows a ROM-able zImage to be written to eSD and for SuperH Mobile ARM to boot directly from the SDHI hardware block. This is achieved by the MaskROM loading the first portion of the image into MERAM and then jumping to it. This portion contains loader code which copies the entire image to SDRAM and jumps to it. From there the zImage boot code proceeds as normal, uncompressing the image into its final location and then jumping to it. Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | | | | | | | | Documentation: Update augmented rbtree documentationSasha Levin2011-07-241-9/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Current documentation referred to the old method of handling augmented trees. Update documentation to correspond with the changes done in commit b945d6b2554d ("rbtree: Undo augmented trees performance damage and regression"). Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2011-07-241-122/+0
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (21 commits) [S390] use siginfo for sigtrap signals [S390] dasd: add enhanced DASD statistics interface [S390] kvm: make sigp emerg smp capable [S390] disable cpu measurement alerts on a dying cpu [S390] initial cr0 bits [S390] iucv cr0 enablement bit [S390] race safe external interrupt registration [S390] remove tape block docu [S390] ap: toleration support for ap device type 10 [S390] cleanup program check handler prototypes [S390] remove kvm mmu reload on s390 [S390] Use gmap translation for accessing guest memory [S390] use gmap address spaces for kvm guest images [S390] kvm guest address space mapping [S390] fix s390 assembler code alignments [S390] move sie code to entry.S [S390] kvm: handle tprot intercepts [S390] qdio: clear shared DSCI before scheduling the queue handler [S390] reference bit testing for unmapped pages [S390] irqs: Do not trace arch_local_{*,irq_*} functions ...
| * | | | | | | | | [S390] remove tape block docuMartin Schwidefsky2011-07-241-122/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After git commit 66ceed5ad1318863c21710f316942bcefff8081c removed the tape block device driver, remove its documentation as well. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'kvm-updates/3.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds2011-07-246-15/+476
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | |/ / / / / / / / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'kvm-updates/3.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (143 commits) KVM: IOMMU: Disable device assignment without interrupt remapping KVM: MMU: trace mmio page fault KVM: MMU: mmio page fault support KVM: MMU: reorganize struct kvm_shadow_walk_iterator KVM: MMU: lockless walking shadow page table KVM: MMU: do not need atomicly to set/clear spte KVM: MMU: introduce the rules to modify shadow page table KVM: MMU: abstract some functions to handle fault pfn KVM: MMU: filter out the mmio pfn from the fault pfn KVM: MMU: remove bypass_guest_pf KVM: MMU: split kvm_mmu_free_page KVM: MMU: count used shadow pages on prepareing path KVM: MMU: rename 'pt_write' to 'emulate' KVM: MMU: cleanup for FNAME(fetch) KVM: MMU: optimize to handle dirty bit KVM: MMU: cache mmio info on page fault path KVM: x86: introduce vcpu_mmio_gva_to_gpa to cleanup the code KVM: MMU: do not update slot bitmap if spte is nonpresent KVM: MMU: fix walking shadow page table KVM guest: KVM Steal time registration ...
| * | | | | | | | | KVM: MMU: remove bypass_guest_pfXiao Guangrong2011-07-241-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The idea is from Avi: | Maybe it's time to kill off bypass_guest_pf=1. It's not as effective as | it used to be, since unsync pages always use shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte, | and since we convert between the two nonpresent_ptes during sync and unsync. Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | KVM guest: KVM Steal time registrationGlauber Costa2011-07-241-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements the kvm bits of the steal time infrastructure. The most important part of it, is the steal time clock. It is an continuous clock that shows the accumulated amount of steal time since vcpu creation. It is supposed to survive cpu offlining/onlining. [marcelo: fix build with CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=n] Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | KVM: KVM Steal time guest/host interfaceGlauber Costa2011-07-121-0/+34
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To implement steal time, we need the hypervisor to pass the guest information about how much time was spent running other processes outside the VM. This is per-vcpu, and using the kvmclock structure for that is an abuse we decided not to make. In this patchset, I am introducing a new msr, KVM_MSR_STEAL_TIME, that holds the memory area address containing information about steal time This patch contains the headers for it. I am keeping it separate to facilitate backports to people who wants to backport the kernel part but not the hypervisor, or the other way around. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | KVM: PPC: Allocate RMAs (Real Mode Areas) at boot for use by guestsPaul Mackerras2011-07-121-0/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds infrastructure which will be needed to allow book3s_hv KVM to run on older POWER processors, including PPC970, which don't support the Virtual Real Mode Area (VRMA) facility, but only the Real Mode Offset (RMO) facility. These processors require a physically contiguous, aligned area of memory for each guest. When the guest does an access in real mode (MMU off), the address is compared against a limit value, and if it is lower, the address is ORed with an offset value (from the Real Mode Offset Register (RMOR)) and the result becomes the real address for the access. The size of the RMA has to be one of a set of supported values, which usually includes 64MB, 128MB, 256MB and some larger powers of 2. Since we are unlikely to be able to allocate 64MB or more of physically contiguous memory after the kernel has been running for a while, we allocate a pool of RMAs at boot time using the bootmem allocator. The size and number of the RMAs can be set using the kvm_rma_size=xx and kvm_rma_count=xx kernel command line options. KVM exports a new capability, KVM_CAP_PPC_RMA, to signal the availability of the pool of preallocated RMAs. The capability value is 1 if the processor can use an RMA but doesn't require one (because it supports the VRMA facility), or 2 if the processor requires an RMA for each guest. This adds a new ioctl, KVM_ALLOCATE_RMA, which allocates an RMA from the pool and returns a file descriptor which can be used to map the RMA. It also returns the size of the RMA in the argument structure. Having an RMA means we will get multiple KMV_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION ioctl calls from userspace. To cope with this, we now preallocate the kvm->arch.ram_pginfo array when the VM is created with a size sufficient for up to 64GB of guest memory. Subsequently we will get rid of this array and use memory associated with each memslot instead. This moves most of the code that translates the user addresses into host pfns (page frame numbers) out of kvmppc_prepare_vrma up one level to kvmppc_core_prepare_memory_region. Also, instead of having to look up the VMA for each page in order to check the page size, we now check that the pages we get are compound pages of 16MB. However, if we are adding memory that is mapped to an RMA, we don't bother with calling get_user_pages_fast and instead just offset from the base pfn for the RMA. Typically the RMA gets added after vcpus are created, which makes it inconvenient to have the LPCR (logical partition control register) value in the vcpu->arch struct, since the LPCR controls whether the processor uses RMA or VRMA for the guest. This moves the LPCR value into the kvm->arch struct and arranges for the MER (mediated external request) bit, which is the only bit that varies between vcpus, to be set in assembly code when going into the guest if there is a pending external interrupt request. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | | | KVM: PPC: Allow book3s_hv guests to use SMT processor modesPaul Mackerras2011-07-121-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This lifts the restriction that book3s_hv guests can only run one hardware thread per core, and allows them to use up to 4 threads per core on POWER7. The host still has to run single-threaded. This capability is advertised to qemu through a new KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT capability. The return value of the ioctl querying this capability is the number of vcpus per virtual CPU core (vcore), currently 4. To use this, the host kernel should be booted with all threads active, and then all the secondary threads should be offlined. This will put the secondary threads into nap mode. KVM will then wake them from nap mode and use them for running guest code (while they are still offline). To wake the secondary threads, we send them an IPI using a new xics_wake_cpu() function, implemented in arch/powerpc/sysdev/xics/icp-native.c. In other words, at this stage we assume that the platform has a XICS interrupt controller and we are using icp-native.c to drive it. Since the woken thread will need to acknowledge and clear the IPI, we also export the base physical address of the XICS registers using kvmppc_set_xics_phys() for use in the low-level KVM book3s code. When a vcpu is created, it is assigned to a virtual CPU core. The vcore number is obtained by dividing the vcpu number by the number of threads per core in the host. This number is exported to userspace via the KVM_CAP_PPC_SMT capability. If qemu wishes to run the guest in single-threaded mode, it should make all vcpu numbers be multiples of the number of threads per core. We distinguish three states of a vcpu: runnable (i.e., ready to execute the guest), blocked (that is, idle), and busy in host. We currently implement a policy that the vcore can run only when all its threads are runnable or blocked. This way, if a vcpu needs to execute elsewhere in the kernel or in qemu, it can do so without being starved of CPU by the other vcpus. When a vcore starts to run, it executes in the context of one of the vcpu threads. The other vcpu threads all go to sleep and stay asleep until something happens requiring the vcpu thread to return to qemu, or to wake up to run the vcore (this can happen when another vcpu thread goes from busy in host state to blocked). It can happen that a vcpu goes from blocked to runnable state (e.g. because of an interrupt), and the vcore it belongs to is already running. In that case it can start to run immediately as long as the none of the vcpus in the vcore have started to exit the guest. We send the next free thread in the vcore an IPI to get it to start to execute the guest. It synchronizes with the other threads via the vcore->entry_exit_count field to make sure that it doesn't go into the guest if the other vcpus are exiting by the time that it is ready to actually enter the guest. Note that there is no fixed relationship between the hardware thread number and the vcpu number. Hardware threads are assigned to vcpus as they become runnable, so we will always use the lower-numbered hardware threads in preference to higher-numbered threads if not all the vcpus in the vcore are runnable, regardless of which vcpus are runnable. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | | | KVM: PPC: Accelerate H_PUT_TCE by implementing it in real modeDavid Gibson2011-07-121-0/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This improves I/O performance for guests using the PAPR paravirtualization interface by making the H_PUT_TCE hcall faster, by implementing it in real mode. H_PUT_TCE is used for updating virtual IOMMU tables, and is used both for virtual I/O and for real I/O in the PAPR interface. Since this moves the IOMMU tables into the kernel, we define a new KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE ioctl to allow qemu to create the tables. The ioctl returns a file descriptor which can be used to mmap the newly created table. The qemu driver models use them in the same way as userspace managed tables, but they can be updated directly by the guest with a real-mode H_PUT_TCE implementation, reducing the number of host/guest context switches during guest IO. There are certain circumstances where it is useful for userland qemu to write to the TCE table even if the kernel H_PUT_TCE path is used most of the time. Specifically, allowing this will avoid awkwardness when we need to reset the table. More importantly, we will in the future need to write the table in order to restore its state after a checkpoint resume or migration. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | | | KVM: PPC: Add support for Book3S processors in hypervisor modePaul Mackerras2011-07-121-0/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds support for KVM running on 64-bit Book 3S processors, specifically POWER7, in hypervisor mode. Using hypervisor mode means that the guest can use the processor's supervisor mode. That means that the guest can execute privileged instructions and access privileged registers itself without trapping to the host. This gives excellent performance, but does mean that KVM cannot emulate a processor architecture other than the one that the hardware implements. This code assumes that the guest is running paravirtualized using the PAPR (Power Architecture Platform Requirements) interface, which is the interface that IBM's PowerVM hypervisor uses. That means that existing Linux distributions that run on IBM pSeries machines will also run under KVM without modification. In order to communicate the PAPR hypercalls to qemu, this adds a new KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL exit code to include/linux/kvm.h. Currently the choice between book3s_hv support and book3s_pr support (i.e. the existing code, which runs the guest in user mode) has to be made at kernel configuration time, so a given kernel binary can only do one or the other. This new book3s_hv code doesn't support MMIO emulation at present. Since we are running paravirtualized guests, this isn't a serious restriction. With the guest running in supervisor mode, most exceptions go straight to the guest. We will never get data or instruction storage or segment interrupts, alignment interrupts, decrementer interrupts, program interrupts, single-step interrupts, etc., coming to the hypervisor from the guest. Therefore this introduces a new KVMTEST_NONHV macro for the exception entry path so that we don't have to do the KVM test on entry to those exception handlers. We do however get hypervisor decrementer, hypervisor data storage, hypervisor instruction storage, and hypervisor emulation assist interrupts, so we have to handle those. In hypervisor mode, real-mode accesses can access all of RAM, not just a limited amount. Therefore we put all the guest state in the vcpu.arch and use the shadow_vcpu in the PACA only for temporary scratch space. We allocate the vcpu with kzalloc rather than vzalloc, and we don't use anything in the kvmppc_vcpu_book3s struct, so we don't allocate it. We don't have a shared page with the guest, but we still need a kvm_vcpu_arch_shared struct to store the values of various registers, so we include one in the vcpu_arch struct. The POWER7 processor has a restriction that all threads in a core have to be in the same partition. MMU-on kernel code counts as a partition (partition 0), so we have to do a partition switch on every entry to and exit from the guest. At present we require the host and guest to run in single-thread mode because of this hardware restriction. This code allocates a hashed page table for the guest and initializes it with HPTEs for the guest's Virtual Real Memory Area (VRMA). We require that the guest memory is allocated using 16MB huge pages, in order to simplify the low-level memory management. This also means that we can get away without tracking paging activity in the host for now, since huge pages can't be paged or swapped. This also adds a few new exports needed by the book3s_hv code. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | | | KVM: PPC: e500: enable magic pageScott Wood2011-07-121-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a shared page used for paravirtualization. It is always present in the guest kernel's effective address space at the address indicated by the hypercall that enables it. The physical address specified by the hypercall is not used, as e500 does not have real mode. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | | | KVM: MMU: Adjust shadow paging to work when SMEP=1 and CR0.WP=0Avi Kivity2011-07-121-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When CR0.WP=0, we sometimes map user pages as kernel pages (to allow the kernel to write to them). Unfortunately this also allows the kernel to fetch from these pages, even if CR4.SMEP is set. Adjust for this by also setting NX on the spte in these circumstances. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | KVM: Fix KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_ENTRY documentationJan Kiszka2011-07-121-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The documented behavior did not match the implemented one (which also never changed). Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | KVM: Clarify KVM_ASSIGN_PCI_DEVICE documentationJan Kiszka2011-07-121-6/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Neither host_irq nor the guest_msi struct are used anymore today. Tag the former, drop the latter to avoid confusion. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | KVM: Fixup documentation section numberingJan Kiszka2011-07-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | KVM: Document KVM_IOEVENTFDSasha Levin2011-07-121-0/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document KVM_IOEVENTFD that can be used to receive notifications of PIO/MMIO events without triggering an exit. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | KVM: nVMX: DocumentationNadav Har'El2011-07-121-0/+251
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch includes a brief introduction to the nested vmx feature in the Documentation/kvm directory. The document also includes a copy of the vmcs12 structure, as requested by Avi Kivity. [marcelo: move to Documentation/virtual/kvm] Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
| * | | | | | | | | KVM: Document KVM_GET_LAPIC, KVM_SET_LAPIC ioctlAvi Kivity2011-07-121-0/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
* | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-07-231-0/+2
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| * | | | | | | | | | Blackfin: spi-docs: further clarify GPIO CS behavior with various modesMike Frysinger2011-07-231-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-07-232-5/+105
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| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'topic/hda' into for-linusTakashi Iwai2011-07-221-0/+100
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| | * | | | | | | | | | | ALSA: hda - Add documentation for codec-specific mixer controlsTakashi Iwai2011-07-191-0/+100
| | | |_|_|_|_|_|_|/ / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | | | | | ALSA: Update document for using KBUILD_MODNAMETakashi Iwai2011-06-141-5/+5
| |/ / / / / / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* | | | | | | | | | | Documentation: refresh sysctl/kernel.txtBorislav Petkov2011-07-231-105/+110
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Refresh sysctl/kernel.txt. More specifically, - drop stale index entries - sync and sort index and entries - reflow sticking out paragraphs to colwidth 72 - correct typos - cleanup whitespace Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | Documentation: fix ambigous text for root cpusetWanlong Gao2011-07-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Only the root cpuset has cpuset.memory_pressure_enabled flag, but not the only one. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | Documentation: fix echo command in cgroups/cpuacct.txtWanlong Gao2011-07-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Must echo a task id to the cgroups' tasks file, but not to a directory. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-07-223-12/+53
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | |_|/ / / / / / / / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (107 commits) vfs: use ERR_CAST for err-ptr tossing in lookup_instantiate_filp isofs: Remove global fs lock jffs2: fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() killing a directory fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() on ramfs et.al. mm/truncate.c: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled fs:update the NOTE of the file_operations structure Remove dead code in dget_parent() AFS: Fix silly characters in a comment switch d_add_ci() to d_splice_alias() in "found negative" case as well simplify gfs2_lookup() jfs_lookup(): don't bother with . or .. get rid of useless dget_parent() in btrfs rename() and link() get rid of useless dget_parent() in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers drivers: fix up various ->llseek() implementations fs: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly in all fs's that define their own llseek Ext4: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA generically Btrfs: implement our own ->llseek fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags reiserfs: make reiserfs default to barrier=flush ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c due to the new shrinker callout for the inode cache, that clashed with the xfs code to start the periodic workers later.
| * | | | | | | | | | fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlersJosef Bacik2011-07-203-5/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers. Some file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and ocfs2. For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there. Thanks, Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | | | | | | | | | fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flagsJosef Bacik2011-07-201-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This just gets us ready to support the SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags. Turns out using fiemap in things like cp cause more problems than it solves, so lets try and give userspace an interface that doesn't suck. We need to match solaris here, and the definitions are *o* If /whence/ is SEEK_HOLE, the offset of the start of the next hole greater than or equal to the supplied offset is returned. The definition of a hole is provided near the end of the DESCRIPTION. *o* If /whence/ is SEEK_DATA, the file pointer is set to the start of the next non-hole file region greater than or equal to the supplied offset. So in the generic case the entire file is data and there is a virtual hole at the end. That means we will just return i_size for SEEK_HOLE and will return the same offset for SEEK_DATA. This is how Solaris does it so we have to do it the same way. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | | | | | | | | | vfs: increase shrinker batch sizeDave Chinner2011-07-201-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that the per-sb shrinker is responsible for shrinking 2 or more caches, increase the batch size to keep econmies of scale for shrinking each cache. Increase the shrinker batch size to 1024 objects. To allow for a large increase in batch size, add a conditional reschedule to prune_icache_sb() so that we don't hold the LRU spin lock for too long. This mirrors the behaviour of the __shrink_dcache_sb(), and allows us to increase the batch size without needing to worry about problems caused by long lock hold times. To ensure that filesystems using the per-sb shrinker callouts don't cause problems, document that the object freeing method must reschedule appropriately inside loops. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | | | | | | | | | superblock: add filesystem shrinker operationsDave Chinner2011-07-201-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now we have a per-superblock shrinker implementation, we can add a filesystem specific callout to it to allow filesystem internal caches to be shrunk by the superblock shrinker. Rather than perpetuate the multipurpose shrinker callback API (i.e. nr_to_scan == 0 meaning "tell me how many objects freeable in the cache), two operations will be added. The first will return the number of objects that are freeable, the second is the actual shrinker call. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | | | | | | | | | ->permission() sanitizing: document API changesAl Viro2011-07-201-3/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | | | | | | | | | ->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->permission()Al Viro2011-07-201-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | not used by the instances anymore. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| * | | | | | | | | | ->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->check_acl()Al Viro2011-07-202-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | not used in the instances anymore. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-07-224-0/+492
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| * | | | | | | | | | | Document the vDSO and add a reference parserAndy Lutomirski2011-07-143-0/+394
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It turns out that parsing the vDSO is nontrivial if you don't already have an ELF dynamic loader around. So document it in Documentation/ABI and add a reference CC0-licenced parser. This code is dedicated to Go issue 1933: http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=1933 Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a315a9514cd71bcf29436cc31e35aada21a5ff21.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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