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Randy Dunlap
ebba5f9fcb [PATCH] consistently use MAX_ERRNO in __syscall_return
Consistently use MAX_ERRNO when checking for errors in __syscall_return().

[ralf@linux-mips.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
Shaohua Li
bd8e39f9e4 [PATCH] x86 microcode: don't check the size
IA32 manual says if micorcode update's size is 0, then the size is
default size (2048 bytes). But this doesn't suggest all microcode
update's size should be above 2048 bytes to me. We actually had a
microcode update whose size is 1024 bytes. The patch just removed the
check.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
Shaohua Li
9a4b9efa1d [PATCH] x86 microcode: add sysfs and hotplug support
Add sysfs support.  Currently each CPU has three microcode related
attributes.  One is 'version' which shows current ucode version of CPU.
Tools can use the attribute do validation or show CPU ucode status.  one is
'reload' which allows manually reloading ucode.  Another is
'processor_flags', which exports processor flags, so we can write tools to
check if CPU has latest ucode.  Also add suspend/resume and CPU hotplug
support.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, build fix]
[bunk@stusta.de: Kconfig fixes]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
Shaohua Li
a30a6a2cb0 [PATCH] x86 microcode: using request_firmware to pull microcode
Using request_firmware to pull ucode from userspace, so we don't need the
application 'microcode_ctl' to assist.  We name each ucode file according
to CPU's info as intel-ucode/family-model-stepping.  In this way we could
split ucode file as small one.  This has a lot of advantages such as
selectively update and validate microcode for specific models, better
manage microcode file, easily write tools for administerators and so on.
with the changes, we should put all intel-ucode/xx-xx-xx microcode files
into the firmware dir (I had a tool to split previous big data file into
small one and later we will release new style data file).  The init script
should be changed to just loading the driver without unloading

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
Shaohua Li
9a3110bf4b [PATCH] x86 microcode: microcode driver cleanup.
Clean up microcode update driver and make it more readable.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
36b756f2b5 [PATCH] reiserfs: warn about the useless nolargeio option
Since the nolargeio option no longer has any effect, print a warning
instead of setting a write-only variable.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
ba52de123d [PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure
This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode.  Filesystems that want
to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr
routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function.

Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect)
values for i_blksize.

[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
[akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
577c4eb09d [PATCH] inode-diet: Move i_cdev into a union
Move the i_cdev pointer in struct inode into a union.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:17 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
eaf796e7ef [PATCH] inode-diet: Move i_bdev into a union
Move the i_bdev pointer in struct inode into a union.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:17 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
4c1541680f [PATCH] inode-diet: Move i_pipe into a union
Move the i_pipe pointer into a union that will be shared with i_bdev and
i_cdev.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:17 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
8e18e2941c [PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private
The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes
on a UP x86.  (It would be more on an x86_64 system).  This is a 10% reduction
in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode
(i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to
save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is
disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat
in the VFS inode structure).

This patch:

The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union,
which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been
using the void pointer.  Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with
a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer.  This is just a
cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where
the union will actually be used.

[judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:17 -07:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
6a1d9805ec [PATCH] fat: cleanup fat_get_block(s)
get_blocks() was removed.  So, this removes it on fat, and will take
advantage of the multi block mapping.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:17 -07:00
Vivek Goyal
7e96287ddc [PATCH] kdump: introduce "reset_devices" command line option
Resetting the devices during driver initialization can be a costly
operation in terms of time (especially scsi devices).  This option can be
used by drivers to know that user forcibly wants the devices to be reset
during initialization.

This option can be useful while kernel is booting in unreliable
environment.  For ex.  during kdump boot where devices are in unknown
random state and BIOS execution has been skipped.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:17 -07:00
Ian Kent
bcdc5e019d [PATCH] autofs4 needs to force fail return revalidate
For a long time now I have had a problem with not being able to return a
lookup failure on an existsing directory.  In autofs this corresponds to a
mount failure on a autofs managed mount entry that is browsable (and so the
mount point directory exists).

While this problem has been present for a long time I've avoided resolving
it because it was not very visible.  But now that autofs v5 has "mount and
expire on demand" of nested multiple mounts, such as is found when mounting
an export list from a server, solving the problem cannot be avoided any
longer.

I've tried very hard to find a way to do this entirely within the autofs4
module but have not been able to find a satisfactory way to achieve it.

So, I need to propose a change to the VFS.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:17 -07:00
Jeff Dike
1183dc943c [PATCH] uml: fix allocation size
Fix an instance of ptr=alloc(sizeof(ptr)).  Grepping showed no more instances
of this pattern.

Also fixed the formatting in the area.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:16 -07:00
Jeff Dike
c1b4098d48 [PATCH] uml: fix sleep length bug
um_timer shouldn't add local_offset to the host time since get_time already
did it.  This threw off sleep when a settimeofday or equivalent had happened.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:16 -07:00
Jeff Dike
db9d988eaa [PATCH] uml: add an export
Some modules need strnlen_user_skas.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:16 -07:00
Jeff Dike
995473aec0 [PATCH] uml: file renaming
Move some foo_kern.c files to foo.c now that the old foo.c files are out
of the way.

Also cleaned up some whitespace and an emacs formatting comment.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:16 -07:00
Jeff Dike
3c91735099 [PATCH] uml: thread creation tidying
fork on UML has always somewhat subtle.  The underlying cause has been the
need to initialize a stack for the new process.  The only portable way to
initialize a new stack is to set it as the alternate signal stack and take a
signal.  The signal handler does whatever initialization is needed and jumps
back to the original stack, where the fork processing is finished.  The basic
context switching mechanism is a jmp_buf for each process.  You switch to a
new process by longjmping to its jmp_buf.

Now that UML has its own implementation of setjmp and longjmp, and I can poke
around inside a jmp_buf without fear that libc will change the structure, a
much simpler mechanism is possible.  The jmpbuf can simply be initialized by
hand.

This eliminates -
	the need to set up and remove the alternate signal stack
	sending and handling a signal
	the signal blocking needed around the stack switching, since
there is no stack switching
	setting up the jmp_buf needed to jump back to the original
stack after the new one is set up

In addition, since jmp_buf is now defined by UML, and not by libc, it can be
embedded in the thread struct.  This makes it unnecessary to have it exist on
the stack, where it used to be.  It also simplifies interfaces, since the
switch jmp_buf used to be a void * inside the thread struct, and functions
which took it as an argument needed to define a jmp_buf variable and assign it
from the void *.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:16 -07:00
Jeff Dike
0915ee38c7 [PATCH] uml: mark some tt-mode code
Mark a symbol and file as being tt-mode only.  This shrinks the binary
slightly when tt mode support is compiled out and makes it easier to identity
stuff when tt mode is removed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:16 -07:00
Jeff Dike
e3ccf6e369 [PATCH] uml: add checkstack support
Make checkstack work for UML.  We need to pass the underlying architecture
name, rather than "um" to checkstack.pl.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:16 -07:00
Jeff Dike
53dd2b55c5 [PATCH] uml: use correct SIGBUS handler
BB noticed that we had the wrong bus error handler.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:16 -07:00
Jeff Dike
09b185a316 [PATCH] uml: fix gcov support
Make __bb_init_func weak in order to avoid a link failure with some libcs
and/or gccs.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:16 -07:00
Jeff Dike
a8b4fc4d7c [PATCH] uml: fix missing x86_64 register definitions
The UML/x86_64 headers were missing ptrace support for some segment registers.
 The underlying problem was that the x86_64 kernel uses user_regs_struct
rather than the ptrace register definitions in ptrace.  This patch switches
UML/x86_64 to using user_regs_struct for its definitions of the host's
registers.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:16 -07:00
Jeff Dike
0715501bf1 [PATCH] uml: get rid of ZONE_DMA use
ZONE_DMA might become dependent on CONFIG_ZONE_DMA, which UML doesn't define
(we're still arguing about this) So, let's change ZONE_DMA to ZONE_NORMAL.

This is prompted by optional-zone_dma-in-the-vm.patch, but should be harmless
on its own.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:15 -07:00
Jeff Dike
5e7672ec3f [PATCH] uml: const more data
Make lots of structures const in order to make it obvious that they need no
locking.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:15 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
48af05ed54 [PATCH] uml: fix proc-vs-interrupt context spinlock deadlock
This spinlock can be taken on interrupt too, so spin_lock_irq[save] must be
used.

However, Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt explains we are called with
rtnl_lock() held - so we don't need to care about other concurrent opens.
Verified also in LDD3 and by direct checking.  Also verified that the network
layer (through a state machine) guarantees us that nobody will close the
interface while it's being used.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Also, we must check we don't sleep with irqs disabled!!!  But anyway, this is
not news - we already can't sleep while holding a spinlock.  Who says this is
guaranted really by the present code?

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:15 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
06837504de [PATCH] uml: use -mcmodel=kernel for x86_64
We have never used this flag and recently one user experienced a complaining
warning about this (there was a symbol in the positive half of the address space
IIRC). So fix it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:15 -07:00
Hirokazu Takata
85f651794c [PATCH] m32r: revise __raw_read_trylock()
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:15 -07:00
Hirokazu Takata
a27f311332 [PATCH] m32r: Fix "value computed not used" warnings
Fix to remove annoying gcc-4.1 warnings "value computed not used" for m32r;
Modify set_mb to cast to void for SMP.

Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:15 -07:00
David Howells
f269fdd182 [PATCH] NOMMU: move the fallback arch_vma_name() to a sensible place
Move the fallback arch_vma_name() to a sensible place (kernel/signal.c).

Currently it's in fs/proc/task_mmu.c, a file that is dependent on both
CONFIG_PROC_FS and CONFIG_MMU being enabled, but it's used from
kernel/signal.c from where it is called unconditionally.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:15 -07:00
David Howells
930e652a21 [PATCH] NOMMU: Make futexes work under NOMMU conditions
Make futexes work under NOMMU conditions.

This can be tested by running this in one shell:

	#define SYSERROR(X, Y) \
		do { if ((long)(X) == -1L) { perror(Y); exit(1); }} while(0)

	int main()
	{
		int shmid, tmp, *f, n;

		shmid = shmget(23, 4, IPC_CREAT|0666);
		SYSERROR(shmid, "shmget");

		f = shmat(shmid, NULL, 0);
		SYSERROR(f, "shmat");

		n = *f;
		printf("WAIT: %p{%x}\n", f, n);
		tmp = futex(f, FUTEX_WAIT, n, NULL, NULL, 0);
		SYSERROR(tmp, "futex");
		printf("WAITED: %d\n", tmp);

		tmp = shmdt(f);
		SYSERROR(tmp, "shmdt");

		exit(0);
	}

And then this in the other shell:

	#define SYSERROR(X, Y) \
		do { if ((long)(X) == -1L) { perror(Y); exit(1); }} while(0)

	int main()
	{
		int shmid, tmp, *f;

		shmid = shmget(23, 4, IPC_CREAT|0666);
		SYSERROR(shmid, "shmget");

		f = shmat(shmid, NULL, 0);
		SYSERROR(f, "shmat");

		(*f)++;
		printf("WAKE: %p{%x}\n", f, *f);
		tmp = futex(f, FUTEX_WAKE, 1, NULL, NULL, 0);
		SYSERROR(tmp, "futex");
		printf("WOKE: %d\n", tmp);

		tmp = shmdt(f);
		SYSERROR(tmp, "shmdt");

		exit(0);
	}

The first program will set up a SYSV IPC SHM segment and wait on a futex in it
for the number at the start to change.  The program will increment that number
and wake the first program up.  This leads to output of the form:

	SHELL 1			SHELL 2
	=======================	=======================
	# /dowait
	WAIT: 0xc32ac000{0}
				# /dowake
				WAKE: 0xc32ac000{1}
	WAITED: 0		WOKE: 1

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:15 -07:00
David Howells
0112c4c646 [PATCH] NOMMU: Add docs about shared memory
Add documentation about using shared memory in NOMMU mode.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
David Howells
6fa5f80bc3 [PATCH] NOMMU: Make mremap() partially work for NOMMU kernels
Make mremap() partially work for NOMMU kernels.  It may resize a VMA provided
that it doesn't exceed the size of the slab object in which the storage is
allocated that the VMA refers to.  Shareable VMAs may not be resized.

Moving VMAs (as permitted by MREMAP_MAYMOVE) is not currently supported.

This patch also makes use of the fact that the VMA list is now ordered to cut
it short when possible.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
David Howells
3034097a50 [PATCH] NOMMU: Order the per-mm_struct VMA list
Order the per-mm_struct VMA list by address so that searching it can be cut
short when the appropriate address has been exceeded.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
David Howells
dbf8685c8e [PATCH] NOMMU: Implement /proc/pid/maps for NOMMU
Implement /proc/pid/maps for NOMMU by reading the vm_area_list attached to
current->mm->context.vmlist.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
David Howells
d00c7b9937 [PATCH] NOMMU: Permit ptrace to ignore non-PROT_WRITE VMAs in NOMMU mode
Permit ptrace to modify a section that's non-shared but is marked
unwritable, such as is obtained by mapping the text segment of an ELF-FDPIC
executable binary with into a binary that's being ptraced[*].

[*] Under NOMMU conditions ptrace causes read-only MAP_PRIVATE mmaps to become
    totally private copies because if a private mapping was actually shared
    then the debugging setting breakpoints in it would potentially crash
    other processes.

This is done by using the VM_MAYWRITE flag rather than the VM_WRITE flag
when deciding whether to permit a write.

Without this patch a debugger can't set breakpoints in the mapped text
sections of executables that are mapped read-only private, even if the
mmap() syscall has taken a private copy because PT_PTRACED is set.

In addition, VM_MAYREAD is used instead of VM_READ for similar reasons.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
David Howells
7b4d5b8b39 [PATCH] NOMMU: Check VMA protections
Check the VMA protections in get_user_pages() against what's being asked.

This checks to see that we don't accidentally write on a non-writable VMA or
permit an I/O mapping VMA to be accessed (which may lack page structs).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
Sonic Zhang
910e46da4b [PATCH] Check if start address is in vma region in NOMMU function get_user_pages()
In NOMMU arch, if run "cat /proc/self/mem", data from physical address 0
are read.  This behavior is different from MMU arch.  In IA32, message
"cat: /proc/self/mem: Input/output error" is reported.

This issue is rootcaused by not validate the start address in NOMMU
function get_user_pages().  Following patch solves this issue.

Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
David Howells
0159b141d8 [PATCH] NOMMU: Use find_vma() rather than reimplementing a VMA search
Use find_vma() in the NOMMU version of access_process_vm() rather than
reimplementing it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
David Howells
5da6185bca [PATCH] NOMMU: Set BDI capabilities for /dev/mem and /dev/kmem
Set the backing device info capabilities for /dev/mem and /dev/kmem to
permit direct sharing under no-MMU conditions and full mapping capabilities
under MMU conditions.  Make the BDI used by these available to all directly
mappable character devices.

Also comment the capabilities for /dev/zero.

[akpm@osdl.org: ifdef reductions]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
David Howells
0ec76a110f [PATCH] NOMMU: Check that access_process_vm() has a valid target
Check that access_process_vm() is accessing a valid mapping in the target
process.

This limits ptrace() accesses and accesses through /proc/<pid>/maps to only
those regions actually mapped by a program.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:14 -07:00
Haavard Skinnemoen
361f6ed1d0 [PATCH] AVR32: Use unsigned long flags for saving interrupt state
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:13 -07:00
Rolf Eike Beer
d24afc57d5 [PATCH] Mark __remove_vm_area() static
The function is exported but not used from anywhere else.  It's also marked as
"not for driver use" so noone out there should really care.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:13 -07:00
Rolf Eike Beer
ead04089b1 [PATCH] Fix kerneldoc comments in mm/vmalloc.c
The empty line between the short description and the first argument
description causes a section to appear twice in the generated manpage.
Also the short description should really be short: the script can't handle
multiple lines.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:13 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
423b41d773 [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: use NULL instead of 0 for ptr
Use NULL instead of 0 for pointer value, eliminate sparse warnings.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:13 -07:00
Jes Sorensen
17a3b05047 [PATCH] mspec driver
Implement the special memory driver (mspec) based on the do_no_pfn
approach.  The driver is currently used only on SN2 hardware with special
fetchop support but could be beneficial on other architectures using the
uncached mode.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:13 -07:00
Jes Sorensen
f4b81804a2 [PATCH] do_no_pfn()
Implement do_no_pfn() for handling mapping of memory without a struct page
backing it.  This avoids creating fake page table entries for regions which
are not backed by real memory.

This feature is used by the MSPEC driver and other users, where it is
highly undesirable to have a struct page sitting behind the page (for
instance if the page is accessed in cached mode via the struct page in
parallel to the the driver accessing it uncached, which can result in data
corruption on some architectures, such as ia64).

This version uses specific NOPFN_{SIGBUS,OOM} return values, rather than
expect all negative pfn values would be an error.  It also bugs on cow
mappings as this would not work with the VM.

[akpm@osdl.org: micro-optimise]
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:13 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
5d29234362 [PATCH] zone_statistics: Use hot node instead of cold zone_pgdat
Now that we have the node in the hot zone of struct zone we can avoid
accessing zone_pgdat in zone_statistics.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:13 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
66a550308b [PATCH] Do not allocate pagesets for unpopulated zones.
We do not need to allocate pagesets for unpopulated zones.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:13 -07:00