1. 24 Jul, 2008 14 commits
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm: add a basic debugging framework for memory initialisation · 6b74ab97
      Mel Gorman authored
      Boot initialisation is very complex, with significant numbers of
      architecture-specific routines, hooks and code ordering.  While significant
      amounts of the initialisation is architecture-independent, it trusts the data
      received from the architecture layer.  This is a mistake, and has resulted in
      a number of difficult-to-diagnose bugs.
      
      This patchset adds some validation and tracing to memory initialisation.  It
      also introduces a few basic defensive measures.  The validation code can be
      explicitly disabled for embedded systems.
      
      This patch:
      
      Add additional debugging and verification code for memory initialisation.
      
      Once enabled, the verification checks are always run and when required
      additional debugging information may be outputted via a mminit_loglevel=
      command-line parameter.
      
      The verification code is placed in a new file mm/mm_init.c.  Ideally other mm
      initialisation code will be moved here over time.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6b74ab97
    • David Brownell's avatar
      add HAVE_CLK to Kconfig, for driver dependencies · 9483a578
      David Brownell authored
      Flag platforms as HAVE_CLK (or not) in Kconfig, based on whether they
      support <linux/clk.h> calls, so that otherwise portable drivers which need
      those calls can list that dependency.
      
      Something like this is a prerequisite for merging the musb_hdrc driver,
      currently used on platforms including Davinci, OMAP2430, OMAP3xx ...  and
      the discrete TUSB6010 chip, which doesn't have a natural platform
      dependency.  (Used with OMAP 2420 in current Nokia N8x0 tablets.)
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Acked-by: default avatarHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9483a578
    • Adrian Bunk's avatar
      remove is_tty() · d7ce20b2
      Adrian Bunk authored
      This patch removes the no longer used is_tty().
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d7ce20b2
    • Clemens Ladisch's avatar
      hpet: clarify maintainer entry · d36e74c4
      Clemens Ladisch authored
      The existing HPET maintainer entries are somewhat unclear about which one
      applies to what part of the kernel.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarClemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d36e74c4
    • Akinobu Mita's avatar
      move memory_read_from_buffer() from fs.h to string.h · e108526e
      Akinobu Mita authored
      James Bottomley warns that inclusion of linux/fs.h in a low level
      driver was always a danger signal.  This patch moves
      memory_read_from_buffer() from fs.h to string.h and fixes includes in
      existing memory_read_from_buffer() users.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
      Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
      Cc: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
      Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
      Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e108526e
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86/auditsc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland · 338b9bb3
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'x86/auditsc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland:
        i386 syscall audit fast-path
        x86_64 ia32 syscall audit fast-path
        x86_64 syscall audit fast-path
        x86_64: remove bogus optimization in sysret_signal
      338b9bb3
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'sched/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip · 7f9dce38
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'sched/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
        sched: hrtick_enabled() should use cpu_active()
        sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation
        sched: fix build error, provide partition_sched_domains() unconditionally
        sched: fix warning in inc_rt_tasks() to not declare variable 'rq' if it's not needed
        cpu hotplug: Make cpu_active_map synchronization dependency clear
        cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo sched domain managment (take 2)
        sched: rework of "prioritize non-migratable tasks over migratable ones"
        sched: reduce stack size in isolated_cpu_setup()
        Revert parts of "ftrace: do not trace scheduler functions"
      
      Fixed up conflicts in include/asm-x86/thread_info.h (due to the
      TIF_SINGLESTEP unification vs TIF_HRTICK_RESCHED removal) and
      kernel/sched_fair.c (due to cpu_active_map vs for_each_cpu_mask_nr()
      introduction).
      7f9dce38
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus' of... · 26dcce0f
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge branch 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
      
      * 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
        NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in speedstep-centrino.c
        cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros, FIXUP
        NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in cpufreq userspace routines
        NR_CPUS: Replace per_cpu(..., smp_processor_id()) with __get_cpu_var
        NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genapic_flat_64.c
        NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genx2apic_uv_x.c
        NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
        NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
        cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c, fix
        cpumask: Use optimized CPUMASK_ALLOC macros in the centrino_target
        cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros
        cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c
        cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in kernel/time/tick-common.c
        cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_main.c
        cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
        cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c
        cpumask: Replace cpumask_of_cpu with cpumask_of_cpu_ptr
        Revert "cpumask: introduce new APIs"
        cpumask: make for_each_cpu_mask a bit smaller
        net: Pass reference to cpumask variable in net/sunrpc/svc.c
        ...
      
      Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c manually
      26dcce0f
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of... · d7b6de14
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge branch 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
      
      * 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
        softlockup: fix invalid proc_handler for softlockup_panic
        softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency
        softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency
        softlockup: show irqtrace
        softlockup: print a module list on being stuck
        softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regression
        softlockup: fix false positives on nohz if CPU is 100% idle for more than 60 seconds
        softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh fix
        softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh unaligned access and disable detection at runtime
        softlockup: allow panic on lockup
      d7b6de14
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm · 30d38542
      Linus Torvalds authored
      * 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (85 commits)
        [ARM] pxa: add base support for PXA930 Handheld Platform (aka SAAR)
        [ARM] pxa: add base support for PXA930 Evaluation Board (aka TavorEVB)
        [ARM] pxa: add base support for PXA930 (aka Tavor-P)
        [ARM] Update mach-types
        [ARM] pxa: make littleton to use the new smc91x platform data
        [ARM] pxa: make zylonite to use the new smc91x platform data
        [ARM] pxa: make mainstone to use the new smc91x platform data
        [ARM] pxa: make lubbock to use new smc91x platform data
        [NET] smc91x: prepare SMC_USE_PXA_DMA to be specified in platform data
        [NET] smc91x: prepare for SMC_IO_SHIFT to be a platform configurable variable
        [NET] smc91x: add SMC91X_NOWAIT flag to platform data
        [NET] smc91x: favor the use of SMC91X_USE_* instead of SMC_CAN_USE_*
        [NET] smc91x: remove "irq_flags" from "struct smc91x_platdata"
        [ARM] 5146/1: pxa2xx: convert all boards to call pxa2xx_transceiver_mode helper
        Support for LCD on e740 e750 e400 and e800 e-series PDAs
        E-series UDC support
        PXA UDC - allow use of inverted GPIO for pullup
        Add e350 support
        Fix broken e-series build
        E-series GPIO / IRQ definitions.
        ...
      30d38542
    • Roland McGrath's avatar
      i386 syscall audit fast-path · af0575bb
      Roland McGrath authored
      This adds fast paths for 32-bit syscall entry and exit when
      TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is set, but no other kind of syscall tracing.
      These paths does not need to save and restore all registers as
      the general case of tracing does.  Avoiding the iret return path
      when syscall audit is enabled helps performance a lot.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      af0575bb
    • Roland McGrath's avatar
      x86_64 ia32 syscall audit fast-path · 5cbf1565
      Roland McGrath authored
      This adds fast paths for 32-bit syscall entry and exit when
      TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is set, but no other kind of syscall tracing.
      These paths does not need to save and restore all registers as
      the general case of tracing does.  Avoiding the iret return path
      when syscall audit is enabled helps performance a lot.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      5cbf1565
    • Roland McGrath's avatar
      x86_64 syscall audit fast-path · 86a1c34a
      Roland McGrath authored
      This adds a fast path for 64-bit syscall entry and exit when
      TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is set, but no other kind of syscall tracing.
      This path does not need to save and restore all registers as
      the general case of tracing does.  Avoiding the iret return path
      when syscall audit is enabled helps performance a lot.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      86a1c34a
    • Roland McGrath's avatar
      x86_64: remove bogus optimization in sysret_signal · 15e8f348
      Roland McGrath authored
      This short-circuit path in sysret_signal looks wrong to me.
      AFAICT, in practice the branch is never taken--and if it were,
      it would go wrong.  To wit, try loading a module whose init
      function does set_thread_flag(TIF_IRET), and see insmod crash
      (presumably with a wrong user stack pointer).
      
      This is because the FIXUP_TOP_OF_STACK work hasn't been done yet
      when we jump around the call to ptregscall_common and get to
      int_with_check--where it expects the user RSP,SS,CS and EFLAGS to
      have been stored by FIXUP_TOP_OF_STACK.
      
      I don't think it's normally possible to get to sysret_signal with no
      _TIF_DO_NOTIFY_MASK bits set anyway, so these two instructions are
      already superfluous.  If it ever did happen, it is harmless to call
      do_notify_resume with nothing for it to do.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      15e8f348
  2. 23 Jul, 2008 26 commits