As the result of conversions, there are no users of ext2 non-atomic bit
operations except for ext2 filesystem itself. Now we can put them into
architecture independent code in ext2 filesystem, and remove from
asm/bitops.h for all architectures.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce little-endian bit operations to the big-endian architectures
which do not have native little-endian bit operations and the
little-endian architectures. (alpha, avr32, blackfin, cris, frv, h8300,
ia64, m32r, mips, mn10300, parisc, sh, sparc, tile, x86, xtensa)
These architectures can just include generic implementation
(asm-generic/bitops/le.h).
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a node parameter to alloc_thread_info(), and change its name to
alloc_thread_info_node()
This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 8d7718aa08 changed "int"
to "u32" in the prototypes but not the definition.
I missed this when I saw the patch go by on LKML.
We cast "u32 *" to "int *" since we are tying into the underlying
atomics framework, and atomic_t uses int as its value type.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile: (27 commits)
arch/tile: support newer binutils assembler shift semantics
arch/tile: fix deadlock bugs in rwlock implementation
drivers/edac: provide support for tile architecture
tile on-chip network driver: sync up with latest fixes
arch/tile: support 4KB page size as well as 64KB
arch/tile: add some more VMSPLIT options and use consistent naming
arch/tile: fix some comments and whitespace
arch/tile: export some additional module symbols
arch/tile: enhance existing finv_buffer_remote() routine
arch/tile: fix two bugs in the backtracer code
arch/tile: use extended assembly to inline __mb_incoherent()
arch/tile: use a cleaner technique to enable interrupt for cpu_idle()
arch/tile: sync up with <arch/sim.h> and <arch/sim_def.h> changes
arch/tile: fix reversed test of strict_strtol() return value
arch/tile: avoid a simulator warning during bootup
arch/tile: export <asm/hardwall.h> to userspace
arch/tile: warn and retry if an IPI is not accepted by the target cpu
arch/tile: stop disabling INTCTRL_1 interrupts during hypervisor downcalls
arch/tile: fix __ndelay etc to work better
arch/tile: bug fix: exec'ed task thought it was still single-stepping
...
Fix up trivial conflict in arch/tile/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S (percpu
alignment vs section naming convention fix)
This change supports building the kernel with newer binutils where
a shift of greater than the word size is no longer interpreted
silently as modulo the word size, but instead generates a warning.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
percpu, x86: Add arch-specific this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() support
percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_cmpxchg_double()
alpha: use L1_CACHE_BYTES for cacheline size in the linker script
percpu: align percpu readmostly subsection to cacheline
Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S due to the
percpu alignment having changed ("x86: Reduce back the alignment of the
per-CPU data section")
Change futex_atomic_op_inuser and futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic
prototypes to use u32 types for the futex as this is the data type the
futex core code uses all over the place.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110311025058.GD26122@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API was funny in that it returned either
the original, user-exposed futex value OR an error code such as -EFAULT.
This was confusing at best, and could be a source of livelocks in places
that retry the cmpxchg_futex_value_locked after trying to fix the issue
by running fault_in_user_writeable().
This change makes the cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API more similar to the
get_futex_value_locked one, returning an error code and updating the
original value through a reference argument.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [tile]
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [ia64]
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> [microblaze]
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [frv]
Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110311024851.GC26122@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The first issue fixed in this patch is that pending rwlock write locks
could lock out new readers; this could cause a deadlock if a read lock was
held on cpu 1, a write lock was then attempted on cpu 2 and was pending,
and cpu 1 was interrupted and attempted to re-acquire a read lock.
The write lock code was modified to not lock out new readers.
The second issue fixed is that there was a narrow race window where a tns
instruction had been issued (setting the lock value to "1") and the store
instruction to reset the lock value correctly had not yet been issued.
In this case, if an interrupt occurred and the same cpu then tried to
manipulate the lock, it would find the lock value set to "1" and spin
forever, assuming some other cpu was partway through updating it. The fix
is to enforce an interrupt critical section around the tns/store pair.
In addition, this change now arranges to always validate that after
a readlock we have not wrapped around the count of readers, which
is only eight bits.
Since these changes make the rwlock "fast path" code heavier weight,
I decided to move all the rwlock code all out of line, leaving only the
conventional spinlock code with fastpath inlines. Since the read_lock
and read_trylock implementations ended up very similar, I just expressed
read_lock in terms of read_trylock.
As part of this change I also eliminate support for the now-obsolete
tns_atomic mode.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Add tile support for the EDAC driver, which provides unified system
error (memory, PCI, etc.) reporting. For now, the TILEPro port
reports memory correctable error (CE) only.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
The Tilera architecture traditionally supports 64KB page sizes
to improve TLB utilization and improve performance when the
hardware is being used primarily to run a single application.
For more generic server scenarios, it can be beneficial to run
with 4KB page sizes, so this commit allows that to be specified
(by modifying the arch/tile/include/hv/pagesize.h header).
As part of this change, we also re-worked the PTE management
slightly so that PTE writes all go through a __set_pte() function
where we can do some additional validation. The set_pte_order()
function was eliminated since the "order" argument wasn't being used.
One bug uncovered was in the PCI DMA code, which wasn't properly
flushing the specified range. This was benign with 64KB pages,
but with 4KB pages we were getting some larger flushes wrong.
The per-cpu memory reservation code also needed updating to
conform with the newer percpu stuff; before it always chose 64KB,
and that was always correct, but with 4KB granularity we now have
to pay closer attention and reserve the amount of memory that will
be requested when the percpu code starts allocating.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
This renames 3G_OPT to 2_75G, and adds 2_5G and 2_25G.
For memory-intensive applications that are also network-buffer
intensive it can be helpful to be able to tune the virtual address
of the start of kernel memory.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
This is a grab bag of changes with no actual change to generated code.
This includes whitespace and comment typos, plus a couple of stale
comments being removed.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
It now takes an additional argument so it can be used to
flush-and-invalidate pages that are cached using hash-for-home
as well those that are cached with coherence point on a single cpu.
This allows it to be used more widely for changing the coherence
point of arbitrary pages when necessary.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
The first is that we were using an incorrect hand-rolled variant
of __kernel_text_address() which didn't handle module PCs. We now
just use the standard API.
The second was that we weren't accounting for the three-level
page table when we were trying to pre-verify the addresses on
the 64-bit TILE-Gx processor; we now do that correctly.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
This avoids having to maintain an additional separate assembly
file, and of course the inline is slightly more efficient as well.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Previously we used iret to atomically return to kernel PL with
interrupts enabled. However, it turns out that we are architecturally
guaranteed that we can just set and clear the "interrupt critical
section" and only interrupt on the following instruction, so we
now do that instead, since it's cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
These headers are used by Linux but are maintained upstream.
This change incorporates a few minor fixes to these headers,
including a new sim_print() function, cleaner support for the
sim_syscall() API, and a sim_query_cpu_speed() method.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
As the added comment says, we can sometimes see a coherence warning
from our simulator if the "swapper_pgprot" variable on the boot cpu
has not been evicted from cache by the time the other cpus come up.
Force it to be evicted so we never see the warning.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
This should have been as part of the initial hardwall submission to
LKML but was overlooked. The header provides the ioctl definitions for
manipulating the hardwall fd, so needs to be available to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Previously we assumed this was impossible, but in fact it can happen.
Handle it gracefully by retrying after issuing a warning.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
The problem was that this could lead to IPIs being disabled during
the softirq processing after a hypervisor downcall (e.g. for I/O),
since both IPI and device interrupts use the INCTRL_1 downcall mechanism.
When this happened at the wrong time, it could lead to deadlock.
Luckily, we were already maintaining the per-interrupt state we need,
and using it in the proper way in the hypervisor, so all we had to do
was to change Linux to stop blocking downcall interrupts for the entire
length of the downcall. (Now they're blocked while we're executing the
downcall routine itself, but not while we're executing any subsequent
softirq routines.) The hypervisor is doing a very small amount of
work it no longer needs to do (masking INTCTRL_1 on entry to the client
interrupt routine), but doing so means that older versions of Tile Linux
will continue to work with a current hypervisor, so that seems reasonable.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
The current implementations of __ndelay and __udelay call a hypervisor
service to delay, but the hypervisor service isn't actually implemented
very well, and the consensus is that Linux should handle figuring this
out natively and not use a hypervisor service.
By converting nanoseconds to cycles, and then spinning until the
cycle counter reaches the desired cycle, we get several benefits:
first, we are sensitive to the actual clock speed; second, we use
less power by issuing a slow SPR read once every six cycles while
we delay; and third, we properly handle the case of an interrupt by
exiting at the target time rather than after some number of cycles.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
To handle single-step, tile mmap's a page of memory in the process
space for each thread and uses it to construct a version of the
instruction that we want to single step. If the process exec's,
though, we lose that mapping, and the kernel needs to be aware that
it will need to recreate it if the exec'ed process than tries to
single-step as well.
Also correct some int32_t to s32 for better kernel style.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
The convention changed to, e.g., ".data..page_aligned". This commit
fixes the places in the tile architecture that were still using the
old convention. One tile-specific section (.init.page) was dropped
in favor of just using an "aligned" attribute.
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> pointed out __PAGE_ALIGNED_BSS, etc.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
This adds the volatile cast which forces the compiler to emit the load.
Suggested by Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Tile's __pte_free_tlb() implementation makes assumptions about the
generic mmu_gather implementation, cure this ;-)
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Currently percpu readmostly subsection may share cachelines with other
percpu subsections which may result in unnecessary cacheline bounce
and performance degradation.
This patch adds @cacheline parameter to PERCPU() and PERCPU_VADDR()
linker macros, makes each arch linker scripts specify its cacheline
size and use it to align percpu subsections.
This is based on Shaohua's x86 only patch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
All architectures are finally converted. Remove the cruft.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.
This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).
Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The current tile rt_sigreturn() syscall pattern uses the common idiom
of loading up pt_regs with all the saved registers from the time of
the signal, then anticipating the fact that we will clobber the ABI
"return value" register (r0) as we return from the syscall by setting
the rt_sigreturn return value to whatever random value was in the pt_regs
for r0.
However, this breaks in our 64-bit kernel when running "compat" tasks,
since we always sign-extend the "return value" register to properly
handle returned pointers that are in the upper 2GB of the 32-bit compat
address space. Doing this to the sigreturn path then causes occasional
random corruption of the 64-bit r0 register.
Instead, we stop doing the crazy "load the return-value register"
hack in sigreturn. We already have some sigreturn-specific assembly
code that we use to pass the pt_regs pointer to C code. We extend that
code to also set the link register to point to a spot a few instructions
after the usual syscall return address so we don't clobber the saved r0.
Now it no longer matters what the rt_sigreturn syscall returns, and the
pt_regs structure can be cleanly and completely reloaded.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Previously we were just setting up the "tp" register in the
new task as started by clone() in libc. However, this is not
quite right, since in principle a signal might be delivered to
the new task before it had its TLS set up. (Of course, this race
window still exists for resetting the libc getpid() cached value
in the new task, in principle. But in any case, we are now doing
this exactly the way all other architectures do it.)
This change is important for 2.6.37 since the tile glibc we will
be submitting upstream will not set TLS in user space any more,
so it will only work on a kernel that has this fix. It should
also be taken for 2.6.36.x in the stable tree if possible.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
arch/tile: fix memchr() not to dereference memory for zero length
arch/tile: make glibc's sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) work correctly
arch/tile: fix rwlock so would-be write lockers don't block new readers
* 'drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
pci root complex: support for tile architecture
drivers/net/tile/: on-chip network drivers for the tile architecture
MAINTAINERS: add drivers/char/hvc_tile.c as maintained by tile
This change fixes a bug that memchr() will read the first word
of the source even if the length is zero. Ironically, the code
was originally written with a test to avoid exactly this problem,
but to make the code conform to Linux coding standards with all
declarations preceding all statements, the first load from memory
was moved up above that test as the initial value for a variable.
The change just moves all the variable declarations to the top
of the file, with no initializers, so that the test can also be
at the top of the file.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
glibc assumes that it can count /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu* to get
the number of configured cpus. For this to be valid on tile, we need
to generate a "cpu" entry for all cpus, including the ones that are
not currently allocated for Linux's use.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
This change enables PCI root complex support for TILEPro. Unlike
TILE-Gx, TILEPro has no support for memory-mapped I/O, so the PCI
support consists of hypervisor upcalls for PIO, DMA, etc. However,
the performance is fine for the devices we have tested with so far
(1Gb Ethernet, SATA, etc.).
The <asm/io.h> header was tweaked to be a little bit more aggressive
about disabling attempts to map/unmap IO port space. The hacky
<asm/pci-bridge.h> header was rolled into the <asm/pci.h> header
and the result was simplified. Both of the latter two headers were
preliminary versions not meant for release before now - oh well.
There is one quirk for our TILEmpower platform, which accidentally
negotiates up to 5GT and needs to be kicked down to 2.5GT.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
This change adds the first network driver for the tile architecture,
supporting the on-chip XGBE and GBE shims.
The infrastructure is present for the TILE-Gx networking drivers (another
three source files in the new directory) but for now the the actual
tilegx sources are waiting on releasing hardware to initial customers.
Note that arch/tile/include/hv/* are "upstream" headers from the
Tilera hypervisor and will probably benefit less from LKML review.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.
Remove this too as a cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This avoids a deadlock in the IGMP code where one core gets a read
lock, another core starts trying to get a write lock (thus blocking
new readers), and then the first core tries to recursively re-acquire
the read lock.
We still try to preserve some degree of balance by giving priority
to additional write lockers that come along while the lock is held
for write, so they can all complete quickly and return the lock to
the readers.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Arnd's recent patch series tagged this device with noop_llseek,
conservatively. In fact, it should be no_llseek, which we arrange
for by opening the device with nonseekable_open().
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
The existing asm-generic/stat.h specifies st_mtime, etc., as a 32-value,
and works well for 32-bit architectures (currently microblaze, score,
and 32-bit tile). However, for 64-bit architectures it isn't sufficient
to return 32 bits of time_t; this isn't good insurance against the 2037
rollover. (It also makes glibc support less convenient, since we can't
use glibc's handy STAT_IS_KERNEL_STAT mode.)
This change extends the two "timespec" fields for each of the three atime,
mtime, and ctime fields from "int" to "long". As a result, on 32-bit
platforms nothing changes, and 64-bit platforms will now work as expected.
The only wrinkle is 32-bit userspace under 64-bit kernels taking advantage
of COMPAT mode. For these, we leave the "struct stat64" definitions with
the "int" versions of the time_t and nsec fields, so that architectures
can implement compat_sys_stat64() and friends with sys_stat64(), etc.,
and get the expected 32-bit structure layout. This requires a
field-by-field copy in the kernel, implemented by the code guarded
under __ARCH_WANT_STAT64.
This does mean that the shape of the "struct stat" and "struct stat64"
structures is different on a 64-bit kernel, but only one of the two
structures should ever be used by any given process: "struct stat"
is meant for 64-bit userspace only, and "struct stat64" for 32-bit
userspace only. (On a 32-bit kernel the two structures continue to have
the same shape, since "long" is 32 bits.)
The alternative is keeping the two structures the same shape on 64-bit
kernels, which means a 64-bit time_t in "struct stat64" for 32-bit
processes. This is a little unnatural since 32-bit userspace can't
do anything with 64 bits of time_t information, since time_t is just
"long", not "int64_t"; and in any case 32-bit userspace might expect
to be running under a 32-bit kernel, which can't provide the high 32
bits anyway. In the case of a 32-bit kernel we'd then be extending the
kernel's 32-bit time_t to 64 bits, then truncating it back to 32 bits
again in userspace, for no particular reason. And, as mentioned above,
if we have 64-bit time_t for 32-bit processes we can't easily use glibc's
STAT_IS_KERNEL_STAT, since glibc's stat structure requires an embedded
"struct timespec", which is a pair of "long" (32-bit) values in a 32-bit
userspace. "Inventive" solutions are possible, but are pretty hacky.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
