linux/arch
Zachary Amsden 0998e4228a [PATCH] x86: privilege cleanup
Privilege checking cleanup.  Originally, these diffs were much greater, but
recent cleanups in Linux have already done much of the cleanup.  I added
some explanatory comments in places where the reasoning behind certain
tests is rather subtle.

Also, in traps.c, we can skip the user_mode check in handle_BUG().  The
reason is, there are only two call chains - one via die_if_kernel() and one
via do_page_fault(), both entering from die().  Both of these paths already
ensure that a kernel mode failure has happened.  Also, the original check
here, if (user_mode(regs)) was insufficient anyways, since it would not
rule out BUG faults from V8086 mode execution.

Saving the %ss segment in show_regs() rather than assuming a fixed value
also gives better information about the current kernel state in the
register dump.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:12 -07:00
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alpha [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. 2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
arm [ARM] Fix ARMv6 page table bits 2005-09-01 22:41:55 +01:00
arm26 [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. 2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
cris [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. 2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
frv [PATCH] frv: Remove export of strtok() 2005-09-05 00:06:01 -07:00
h8300 [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. 2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
i386 [PATCH] x86: privilege cleanup 2005-09-05 00:06:12 -07:00
ia64 [IA64] uncached allocator: use generic (not sn2 specific) functions 2005-08-31 14:18:04 -07:00
m32r [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. 2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
m68k It wasn't just x86-64 that had hardcoded VM_FAULT_xxx numbers 2005-08-04 08:33:38 -07:00
m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: update defconfig for m68knommu 2005-09-02 00:57:30 -07:00
mips [PATCH] mips: fix build warnings 2005-09-05 00:06:08 -07:00
parisc [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. 2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
ppc [PATCH] ppc32: cpci690 updates 2005-09-05 00:06:01 -07:00
ppc64 [PATCH] ppc64: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible() 2005-09-05 00:06:01 -07:00
s390 [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. 2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
sh [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. 2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
sh64 [PATCH] arch/sh64/Kconfig: doesn't need it's own LOG_BUF_SHIFT 2005-09-05 00:06:09 -07:00
sparc [SPARC]: remove use of asm/segment.h 2005-08-29 12:45:44 -07:00
sparc64 [SPARC64]: More fully work around Spitfire Errata 51. 2005-08-29 12:46:22 -07:00
um [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. 2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
v850 [PATCH] v850: Add show_mem 2005-09-02 00:57:31 -07:00
x86_64 [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. 2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
xtensa [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. 2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00