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* powerpc: Add VDSO version of getcpuAnton Blanchard2012-07-111-0/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have a request for a fast method of getting CPU and NUMA node IDs from userspace. This patch implements a getcpu VDSO function, similar to x86. Ben suggested we use SPRG3 which is userspace readable. SPRG3 can be modified by a KVM guest, so we save the SPRG3 value in the paca and restore it when transitioning from the guest to the host. I have a glibc patch that implements sched_getcpu on top of this. Testing on a POWER7: baseline: 538 cycles vdso: 30 cycles Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-03-281-1/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells: "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion dependencies. I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can and made sure that they don't break. The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2(). This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h. The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg. memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()). These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces: (1) asm/barrier.h Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha. (2) asm/switch_to.h Move switch_to() and related stuff here. (3) asm/exec.h Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h. (4) asm/cmpxchg.h Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg(). (5) asm/bug.h Move die() and related bits. (6) asm/auxvec.h Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here. Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis." Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it.. * tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits) Delete all instances of asm/system.h Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h Create asm-generic/barrier.h Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt] Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390 Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300 ...
| * Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPCDavid Howells2012-03-281-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
* | powerpc: Random little legacy iSeries removal tidy upsStephen Rothwell2012-03-281-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* | coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flagJason Baron2012-03-231-8/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which can be quite large. There are already a number of filter flags in /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types' of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this case). Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag. The flag is used internally by the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages. However, it is simple enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need for this flag. The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new 'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags: 'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'. The core dump filters continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the region. The qemu code which implements this features is at: http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -> 13MB with this patch. I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are dumped. This patch: The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section. However, we can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from arch_vma_name(). Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* powerpc: remove non-required uses of include <linux/module.h>Paul Gortmaker2011-10-311-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* mm: arch: rename in_gate_area_no_task to in_gate_area_no_mmStephen Wilson2011-03-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that gate vma's are referenced with respect to a particular mm and not a particular task it only makes sense to propagate the change to this predicate as well. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* mm: arch: make in_gate_area take an mm_struct instead of a task_structStephen Wilson2011-03-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Morally, the question of whether an address lies in a gate vma should be asked with respect to an mm, not a particular task. Moreover, dropping the dependency on task_struct will help make existing and future operations on mm's more flexible and convenient. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* mm: arch: make get_gate_vma take an mm_struct instead of a task_structStephen Wilson2011-03-231-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Morally, the presence of a gate vma is more an attribute of a particular mm than a particular task. Moreover, dropping the dependency on task_struct will help make both existing and future operations on mm's more flexible and convenient. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* powerpc: Use is_32bit_task() helper to test 32-bit binaryDenis Kirjanov2010-09-021-3/+3
| | | | | | | This patch removes all explicit tests for the TIF_32BIT flag Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* lmb: rename to memblockYinghai Lu2010-07-141-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | via following scripts FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/lmb/memblock/g' \ -e 's/LMB/MEMBLOCK/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name lmb.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/lmb/memblock/g') mv $N $M done and remove some wrong change like lmbench and dlmb etc. also move memblock.c from lib/ to mm/ Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* tree-wide: fix a very frequent spelling mistakeDirk Hohndel2009-11-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | something-bility is spelled as something-blity so a grep for 'blit' would find these lines this is so trivial that I didn't split it by subsystem / copy additional maintainers - all changes are to comments The only purpose is to get fewer false positives when grepping around the kernel sources. Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* powerpc: Align vDSO base addressAndreas Schwab2009-10-271-1/+10
| | | | | | | The ABI specifies a 64K alignment, we need to map the vDSO accordingly Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* powerpc/perf_counter: Fix vdso detectionAnton Blanchard2009-09-241-4/+10
| | | | | | | | | perf_counter uses arch_vma_name() to detect a vdso region which in turn uses current->mm->context.vdso_base. We need to initialise this before doing the mmap or else we fail to detect the vdso. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* Use macros for .data.page_aligned section.Tim Abbott2009-09-211-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes the remaining direct references to .data.page_aligned in C and assembly code to use the macros in include/linux/linkage.h. Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* powerpc: Move 64bit VDSO to improve context switch performanceAnton Blanchard2009-08-201-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On 64bit applications the VDSO is the only thing in segment 0. Since the VDSO is position independent we can remove the hint and let get_unmapped_area pick an area. This will mean the vdso will be near other mmaps and will share an SLB entry: 10000000-10001000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 5778459 /root/context_switch_64 10010000-10011000 r--p 00000000 08:06 5778459 /root/context_switch_64 10011000-10012000 rw-p 00001000 08:06 5778459 /root/context_switch_64 fffa92ae000-fffa92b0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 fffa92b0000-fffa9453000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 4334051 /lib64/power6/libc-2.9.so fffa9453000-fffa9462000 ---p 001a3000 08:06 4334051 /lib64/power6/libc-2.9.so fffa9462000-fffa9466000 r--p 001a2000 08:06 4334051 /lib64/power6/libc-2.9.so fffa9466000-fffa947c000 rw-p 001a6000 08:06 4334051 /lib64/power6/libc-2.9.so fffa947c000-fffa9480000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 fffa9480000-fffa94a8000 r-xp 00000000 08:06 4333852 /lib64/ld-2.9.so fffa94b3000-fffa94b4000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 fffa94b4000-fffa94b7000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] <----- here I am fffa94b7000-fffa94b8000 r--p 00027000 08:06 4333852 /lib64/ld-2.9.so fffa94b8000-fffa94bb000 rw-p 00028000 08:06 4333852 /lib64/ld-2.9.so fffa94bb000-fffa94bc000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 fffe4c10000-fffe4c25000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] On a microbenchmark that bounces a token between two 64bit processes over pipes and calls gettimeofday each iteration (to access the VDSO), our context switch rate goes from 268k to 277k ctx switches/sec (tested on a 4GHz POWER6). Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-12-281-0/+10
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (144 commits) powerpc/44x: Support 16K/64K base page sizes on 44x powerpc: Force memory size to be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE powerpc/32: Wire up the trampoline code for kdump powerpc/32: Add the ability for a classic ppc kernel to be loaded at 32M powerpc/32: Allow __ioremap on RAM addresses for kdump kernel powerpc/32: Setup OF properties for kdump powerpc/32/kdump: Implement crash_setup_regs() using ppc_save_regs() powerpc: Prepare xmon_save_regs for use with kdump powerpc: Remove default kexec/crash_kernel ops assignments powerpc: Make default kexec/crash_kernel ops implicit powerpc: Setup OF properties for ppc32 kexec powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug powerpc: Fix KVM build on ppc440 powerpc/cell: add QPACE as a separate Cell platform powerpc/cell: fix build breakage with CONFIG_SPUFS disabled powerpc/mpc5200: fix error paths in PSC UART probe function powerpc/mpc5200: add rts/cts handling in PSC UART driver powerpc/mpc5200: Make PSC UART driver update serial errors counters powerpc/mpc5200: Remove obsolete code from mpc5200 MDIO driver powerpc/mpc5200: Add MDMA/UDMA support to MPC5200 ATA driver ... Fix trivial conflict in drivers/char/Makefile as per Paul's directions
| * powerpc/mm: Introduce MMU featuresBenjamin Herrenschmidt2008-12-211-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We're soon running out of CPU features and I need to add some new ones for various MMU related bits, so this patch separates the MMU features from the CPU features. I moved over the 32-bit MMU related ones, added base features for MMU type families, but didn't move over any 64-bit only feature yet. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [S390] arch_setup_additional_pages argumentsMartin Schwidefsky2008-12-251-2/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | arch_setup_additional_pages currently gets two arguments, the binary format descripton and an indication if the process uses an executable stack or not. The second argument is not used by anybody, it could be removed without replacement. What actually does make sense is to pass an indication if the process uses the elf interpreter or not. The glibc code will not use anything from the vdso if the process does not use the dynamic linker, so for statically linked binaries the architecture backend can choose not to map the vdso. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* powerpc: Remove use of CONFIG_PPC_MERGEKumar Gala2008-08-041-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | Now that arch/ppc is gone and CONFIG_PPC_MERGE is always set, remove the dead code associated with !CONFIG_PPC_MERGE from arch/powerpc and include/asm-powerpc. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* powerpc: Fixup lwsync at runtimeKumar Gala2008-07-031-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To allow for a single kernel image on e500 v1/v2/mc we need to fixup lwsync at runtime. On e500v1/v2 lwsync causes an illop so we need to patch up the code. We default to 'sync' since that is always safe and if the cpu is capable we will replace 'sync' with 'lwsync'. We introduce CPU_FTR_LWSYNC as a way to determine at runtime if this is needed. This flag could be moved elsewhere since we dont really use it for the normal CPU_FTR purpose. Finally we only store the relative offset in the fixup section to keep it as small as possible rather than using a full fixup_entry. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* Reinstate ZERO_PAGE optimization in 'get_user_pages()' and fix XIPLinus Torvalds2008-06-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki and Oleg Nesterov point out that since the commit 557ed1fa2620dc119adb86b34c614e152a629a80 ("remove ZERO_PAGE") removed the ZERO_PAGE from the VM mappings, any users of get_user_pages() will generally now populate the VM with real empty pages needlessly. We used to get the ZERO_PAGE when we did the "handle_mm_fault()", but since fault handling no longer uses ZERO_PAGE for new anonymous pages, we now need to handle that special case in follow_page() instead. In particular, the removal of ZERO_PAGE effectively removed the core file writing optimization where we would skip writing pages that had not been populated at all, and increased memory pressure a lot by allocating all those useless newly zeroed pages. This reinstates the optimization by making the unmapped PTE case the same as for a non-existent page table, which already did this correctly. While at it, this also fixes the XIP case for follow_page(), where the caller could not differentiate between the case of a page that simply could not be used (because it had no "struct page" associated with it) and a page that just wasn't mapped. We do that by simply returning an error pointer for pages that could not be turned into a "struct page *". The error is arbitrarily picked to be EFAULT, since that was what get_user_pages() already used for the equivalent IO-mapped page case. [ Also removed an impossible test for pte_offset_map_lock() failing: that's not how that function works ] Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/lmb-2.6Paul Mackerras2008-02-261-1/+2
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| * [LIB]: Make PowerPC LMB code generic so sparc64 can use it too.David S. Miller2008-02-131-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [POWERPC] vdso_do_func_patch{32,64}() must be __initAdrian Bunk2008-02-141-6/+6
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes the following section mismatches: <-- snip --> ... WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe49c): Section mismatch in reference from the function .vdso_do_func_patch64() to the function .init.text:.find_symbol64() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe4d0): Section mismatch in reference from the function .vdso_do_func_patch64() to the function .init.text:.find_symbol64() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe56c): Section mismatch in reference from the function .vdso_do_func_patch32() to the function .init.text:.find_symbol32() WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe5a0): Section mismatch in reference from the function .vdso_do_func_patch32() to the function .init.text:.find_symbol32() ... <-- snip --> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [POWERPC] vdso: Fixes for cache block sizesOlof Johansson2007-11-201-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | The current VDSO implementation is hardcoded to 128 byte cache blocks, which are only used on IBM's 64-bit processors. Convert it to get the cache block sizes out of vdso_data instead, similar to how the ppc64 in-kernel cache flush does it. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [POWERPC] Disable vDSO support for ARCH=ppc where it's not implementedWolfgang Denk2007-10-111-0/+2
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [POWERPC] Don't expose clock vDSO functions when CPU has no timebaseBenjamin Herrenschmidt2007-09-191-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | We forgot to remove the clock_gettime, clock_getres and get_tbfreq vDSO calls on CPUs that have no timebase such as 601 or 403 (old CPUs that have different mechanisms and for which the vDSO code will not work properly). This fixes it. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [POWERPC] Fix VDSO compile warningSegher Boessenkool2007-06-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Maybe the type should have been char[] instead of __u8[] in the first place, but this will do. Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not usedRandy Dunlap2007-05-081-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed. Suggested by Al Viro. Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [POWERPC] Fix vDSO page count calculationBenjamin Herrenschmidt2007-02-131-11/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The recent vDSO consolidation patches broke powerpc due to a mistake in the definition of MAXPAGES constants. This fixes it by moving to a dynamically allocated array of pages instead as I don't like much hard coded size limits. Also move the vdso initialisation to an initcall since it doesn't really need to be done -that- early. Applogies for not catching the breakage earlier, Roland _did_ CC me on his patches a while ago, I got busy with other things and forgot to test them. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] powerpc vDSO: use install_special_mappingRoland McGrath2007-02-091-77/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch uses install_special_mapping for the powerpc vDSO setup, consolidating duplicated code. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] powerpc vDSO: use VM_ALWAYSDUMPRoland McGrath2007-01-261-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes core dumps to include the vDSO vma, which is left out now. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNELChristoph Lameter2006-12-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [POWERPC] Support feature fixups in vdso'sBenjamin Herrenschmidt2006-10-251-0/+43
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch reworks the feature fixup mecanism so vdso's can be fixed up. The main issue was that the construct: .long label (or .llong on 64 bits) will not work in the case of a shared library like the vdso. It will generate an empty placeholder in the fixup table along with a reloc, which is not something we can deal with in the vdso. The idea here (thanks Alan Modra !) is to instead use something like: 1: .long label - 1b That is, the feature fixup tables no longer contain addresses of bits of code to patch, but offsets of such code from the fixup table entry itself. That is properly resolved by ld when building the .so's. I've modified the fixup mecanism generically to use that method for the rest of the kernel as well. Another trick is that the 32 bits vDSO included in the 64 bits kernel need to have a table in the 64 bits format. However, gas does not support 32 bits code with a statement of the form: .llong label - 1b (Or even just .llong label) That is, it cannot emit the right fixup/relocation for the linker to use to assign a 32 bits address to an .llong field. Thus, in the specific case of the 32 bits vdso built as part of the 64 bits kernel, we are using a modified macro that generates: .long 0xffffffff .llong label - 1b Note that is assumes that the value is negative which is enforced by the .lds (those offsets are always negative as the .text is always before the fixup table and gas doesn't support emiting the reloc the other way around). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-301-1/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] powerpc vdso updatesBenjamin Herrenschmidt2006-06-091-21/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch cleans up some locking & error handling in the ppc vdso and moves the vdso base pointer from the thread struct to the mm context where it more logically belongs. It brings the powerpc implementation closer to Ingo's new x86 one and also adds an arch_vma_name() function allowing to print [vsdo] in /proc/<pid>/maps if Ingo's x86 vdso patch is also applied. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbersBenjamin Herrenschmidt2006-03-281-1/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes statically assigned platform numbers and reworks the powerpc platform probe code to use a better mechanism. With this, board support files can simply declare a new machine type with a macro, and implement a probe() function that uses the flattened device-tree to detect if they apply for a given machine. We now have a machine_is() macro that replaces the comparisons of _machine with the various PLATFORM_* constants. This commit also changes various drivers to use the new macro instead of looking at _machine. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* Merge ../linux-2.6Paul Mackerras2006-03-091-2/+2
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| * [PATCH] Add mm->task_size and fix powerpc vdsoBenjamin Herrenschmidt2006-02-281-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds mm->task_size to keep track of the task size of a given mm and uses that to fix the powerpc vdso so that it uses the mm task size to decide what pages to fault in instead of the current thread flags (which broke when ptracing). (akpm: I expect that mm_struct.task_size will become the way in which we finally sort out the confusion between 32-bit processes and 32-bit mm's. It may need tweaks, but at this stage this patch is powerpc-only.) Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] powerpc: trivial: modify comments to refer to new location of filesJon Mason2006-02-101-2/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | This patch removes all self references and fixes references to files in the now defunct arch/ppc64 tree. I think this accomplises everything wanted, though there might be a few references I missed. Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* mm: re-architect the VM_UNPAGED logicLinus Torvalds2005-11-281-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This replaces the (in my opinion horrible) VM_UNMAPPED logic with very explicit support for a "remapped page range" aka VM_PFNMAP. It allows a VM area to contain an arbitrary range of page table entries that the VM never touches, and never considers to be normal pages. Any user of "remap_pfn_range()" automatically gets this new functionality, and doesn't even have to mark the pages reserved or indeed mark them any other way. It just works. As a side effect, doing mmap() on /dev/mem works for arbitrary ranges. Sparc update from David in the next commit. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] unpaged: VM_UNPAGEDHugh Dickins2005-11-221-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Although we tend to associate VM_RESERVED with remap_pfn_range, quite a few drivers set VM_RESERVED on areas which are then populated by nopage. The PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 changed VM_RESERVED not to free pages in zap_pte_range, without changing those drivers not to set it: so their pages just leak away. Let's not change miscellaneous drivers now: introduce VM_UNPAGED at the core, to flag the special areas where the ptes may have no struct page, or if they have then it's not to be touched. Replace most instances of VM_RESERVED in core mm by VM_UNPAGED. Force it on in remap_pfn_range, and the sparc and sparc64 io_remap_pfn_range. Revert addition of VM_RESERVED to powerpc vdso, it's not needed there. Is it needed anywhere? It still governs the mm->reserved_vm statistic, and special vmas not to be merged, and areas not to be core dumped; but could probably be eliminated later (the drivers are probably specifying it because in 2.4 it kept swapout off the vma, but in 2.6 we work from the LRU, which these pages don't get on). Use the VM_SHM slot for VM_UNPAGED, and define VM_SHM to 0: it serves no purpose whatsoever, and should be removed from drivers when we clean up. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernelBenjamin Herrenschmidt2005-11-111-0/+746
This patch moves the vdso's to arch/powerpc, adds support for the 32 bits vdso to the 32 bits kernel, rename systemcfg (finally !), and adds some new (still untested) routines to both vdso's: clock_gettime() with support for CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, clock_getres() (same clocks) and get_tbfreq() for glibc to retreive the timebase frequency. Tom,Steve: The implementation of get_tbfreq() I've done for 32 bits returns a long long (r3, r4) not a long. This is such that if we ever add support for >4Ghz timebases on ppc32, the userland interface won't have to change. I have tested gettimeofday() using some glibc patches in both ppc32 and ppc64 kernels using 32 bits userland (I haven't had a chance to test a 64 bits userland yet, but the implementation didn't change and was tested earlier). I haven't tested yet the new functions. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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