- 01 May, 2005 37 commits
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Anton Blanchard authored
There were a few issues with the ppc64 noexec support: The 64bit ABI has a non executable stack by default. At the moment 64bit apps require a PT_GNU_STACK section in order to have a non executable stack. Disable the read implies exec workaround on the 64bit ABI. The 64bit toolchain has never had problems with incorrect mmap permissions (the 32bit has, thats why we need to retain the workaround). With these fixes as well as a gcc fix from Alan Modra (that was recently committed) 64bit apps work as expected. Signed-off-by:
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Olof Johansson authored
It turns out that our current __hash_page code will do a very hot busy-wait loop waiting on _PAGE_BUSY to be cleared. It even does ldarx/stdcx in the loop, which will bounce reservations around like crazy if there's more than one CPU spinning on the same PTE (or even another PTE in the same reservation granule). The end result is that each fault takes longer when there's contention, which in turn increases the chance of another thread hitting the same fault and also piling up. Not pretty. There's two options here: 1. Do an out-of-line busy loop a'la spinlocks with just loads (no reserves) 2. Just bail and refault if needed. (2) makes sense here: If the PTE is busy, chances are it's in flux anyway and the other code path making a change might just be ready to hash it. This fixes a stampede seen on a large-ish system where a multithreaded HPC app faults in the same text pages on several cpus at the same time. Signed-off-by:
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Mackerras authored
On pSeries systems, according to the platform architecture specs, we are supposed to be supplying a structure to firmware that tells firmware about our capabilities, such as which version of the data structures that describe available memory we are expecting to see. The way we end up having to supply this data structure is a bit gross, since it was designed for AIX and doesn't suit us very well. This patch adds the code to supply this data structure to the firmware. Signed-off-by:
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This patch converts ppc64 to use the generic pgtable-nopud.h instead of the "fixup" header. Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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akpm@osdl.org authored
- Fix arch/ppc64/kernel/nvram.c:342: warning: `part' might be used uninitialized in this function - Various codingstyle tweaks. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Mackerras authored
When I tried Ben's patches to the powermac sound driver on my G5, I found that it was taking enormous numbers of sound DMA transmit interrupts. This turned out to be because it was incorrectly configured as level-sensitive instead of edge-sensitive, which in turn was because the code that parses the interrupt tree that Open Firmware gives us was incorrectly assigning another device the same irq number as the sound DMA transmit interrupt (i.e. 1). This patch fixes the problem, in a somewhat quick and dirty way for now, but one which will work for all the machines we currently run on. Ultimately Ben and I want to do something more general and robust, but this should go in for 2.6.12. Signed-off-by:
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Olof Johansson authored
Remove vsid argument to create_slbe, since it's no longer used. Spotted by R Sharada. Signed-off-by:
Olof Johansson <olof@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This patch from Roland adds a PT_NOTE section to both 32 and 64 bits vDSOs to expose the kernel version to glibc, thus avoiding a uname syscall on every launch. This is equivalent to the patches Roland posted already for x86 and x86-64. Note: the 64 bits .note is actually using the 32 bits format. This is normal. The ELF spec specifies a different format for 64 bits .note, but for some reason, this was never properly implemented, the core dumps for example are all using 32 bits format .note, and binutils cannot even read a 64 bits format .note. Talking to our toolchain folks, they think we'd rather stick to 32 bits format .note everywhere and get the spec fixed some day ... Signed-off-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Colin Leroy authored
Ben's patch that shutdowns master switch and restores it after resume ("pmac: Improve sleep code of tumbler driver") isn't enough here on an iBook (snapper chip). The master switch is correctly saved and restored, but somehow tumbler_put_master_volume() gets called just after tumbler_set_master_volume() and sets mix->master_vol[*] to 0. So, on resuming, the master switch is reenabled, but the volume is set to 0. Here's a patch that also saves and restores master_vol. Signed-off-by:Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This patch applies on top of my previous g5 related sound patches and adds support for the Mac Mini to the PowerMac Alsa driver. However, I haven't found any kind of HW support for volume control on this machine. If it exist, it's well hidden. That means that you probably want to make sure you use software with the ability to do soft volume control, or use Alsa 0.9 pre-release with the softvol plugin. Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
This patch fixes a couple more issues with the management of the GPIOs dealing with headphone and line out mute on the G5. It should fix the remaining problems of people not getting any sound out of the headphone jack. Signed-off-by:
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Dan Malek authored
There is a problem with large amounts of spurious IRQs on PowerPC 82xx systems. The problem is corrected by adding sync at the end of cpm2_mask_and_ack. This may be needed on 8xx as well but has not yet been confirmed. Signed-off-by:
Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by:
Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Mackerras authored
The handling of misaligned load/store multiple instructions did not check to see if the address was ok to access before using __{get,put}_user(). Signed-off-by:Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Some earlier models of aluminium powerbooks and ibook G4s have a clock chip that requires some tweaking before and after sleep. It seems that without that magic incantation to disable and re-enable clock spreading, RAM isn't properly refreshed during sleep. This fixes it. Signed-off-by:
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Andreas Jaggi authored
This patch adds support for the special adb buttons of the aluminium PowerBook G4. Signed-off-by:
Andreas Jaggi <andreas.jaggi@waterwave.ch> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
I noticed an occasional crash on wakeup from sleep on my powerbook (strangly never happened before, probably timing related) that appears to be due to a dangling interrupt while the chip is put to sleep and beeing reset on wakeup. This patch fixes is by disabling the irq in the ide pmac driver while asleep and only re-enable it after the chip has been fully reset. This is safe to do so as the interrupt of these apple IDE cells is never shared. Signed-off-by:
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Chris Elston authored
This patch adds the hooks into the PPC7D platforms file to support the DS1337 RTC device as the clock device for the PPC7D board. Signed-off-by:
Chris Elston <chris.elston@radstone.co.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Chris Elston authored
This patch fixes the SDRAM output from /proc/cpuinfo. The previous code assumed that there was only one bank of SDRAM, and that the size in the memory configuration register was the total size. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Mackerras authored
Moved common FPU exception handling code out of head.S so it can be used by several of the sub-architectures that might of a full PowerPC FPU. Also, uses new CONFIG_PPC_FPU define to fix alignment exception handling for floating point load/store instructions to only occur if we have a hardware FPU. Signed-off-by:
Jason McMullan <jason.mcmullan@timesys.com> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Some G3 CPUs can crash in funny way if a store from an FPU register instruction is executed on a register that has never been initialized since power on. This patch fixes it by making sure all FP registers have been properly initialized at kernel boot and when waking from sleep. It also makes the code that decides wether HID0_BTIC and HID0_DPM are allowed on a given CPU smarter (it can actually _clear_ them now if they are not allowed instead of just setting them when they are allowed in case the firmware got them wrong) Signed-off-by:
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James Morris authored
This patch provides finer grained permissions for the audit family of Netlink sockets under SELinux. 1. We need a way to differentiate between privileged and unprivileged reads of kernel data maintained by the audit subsystem. The AUDIT_GET operation is unprivileged: it returns the current status of the audit subsystem (e.g. whether it's enabled etc.). The AUDIT_LIST operation however returns a list of the current audit ruleset, which is considered privileged by the audit folk. To deal with this, a new SELinux permission has been implemented and applied to the operation: nlmsg_readpriv, which can be allocated to appropriately privileged domains. Unprivileged domains would only be allocated nlmsg_read. 2. There is a requirement for certain domains to generate audit events from userspace. These events need to be collected by the kernel, collated and transmitted sequentially back to the audit daemon. An example is user level login, an auditable event under CAPP, where login-related domains generate AUDIT_USER messages via PAM which are relayed back to auditd via the kernel. To prevent handing out nlmsg_write permissions to such domains, a new permission has been added, nlmsg_relay, which is intended for this type of purpose: data is passed via the kernel back to userspace but no privileged information is written to the kernel. Also, AUDIT_LOGIN messages are now valid only for kernel->user messaging, so this value has been removed from the SELinux nlmsgtab (which is only used to check user->kernel messages). Signed-off-by:
James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Smalley authored
This patch removes the sclass argument from ipc_has_perm in the SELinux module, as it can be obtained from the ipc security structure. The use of a separate argument was a legacy of the older precondition function handling in SELinux and is obsolete. Please apply. Signed-off-by:
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akpm@osdl.org authored
In rare situations, drop_buffers() can be called for a page which has buffers, but no ->mapping (it was truncated, but the buffers were left behind because ext3 was still fiddling with them). But if there was an I/O error in a buffer_head, drop_buffers() will try to get at the address_space and will oops. Signed-off-by:
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Nikita Danilov authored
When ->writepage() returns WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE, the page is still locked. Explicitly unlock the page in mpage_writepages(). Signed-off-by:
Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by:
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Manfred Spraul authored
The patch makes the following function calls available to allocate memory on a specific node without changing the basic operation of the slab allocator: kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags, int node); kmalloc_node(size_t size, unsigned int flags, int node); in a similar way to the existing node-blind functions: kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags); kmalloc(size, flags); kmem_cache_alloc_node was changed to pass flags and the node information through the existing layers of the slab allocator (which lead to some minor rearrangements). The functions at the lowest layer (kmem_getpages, cache_grow) are already node aware. Also __alloc_percpu can call kmalloc_node now. Performance measurements (using the pageset localization patch) yields: w/o patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.27 100 484.2736 12.02 1.97 Wed Mar 30 20:50:43 2005 100 25170.83 91 251.7083 23.12 150.10 Wed Mar 30 20:51:06 2005 200 34601.66 84 173.0083 33.64 294.14 Wed Mar 30 20:51:40 2005 300 37154.47 86 123.8482 46.99 436.56 Wed Mar 30 20:52:28 2005 400 39839.82 80 99.5995 58.43 580.46 Wed Mar 30 20:53:27 2005 500 40036.32 79 80.0726 72.68 728.60 Wed Mar 30 20:54:40 2005 600 44074.21 79 73.4570 79.23 872.10 Wed Mar 30 20:55:59 2005 700 44016.60 78 62.8809 92.56 1015.84 Wed Mar 30 20:57:32 2005 800 40411.05 80 50.5138 115.22 1161.13 Wed Mar 30 20:59:28 2005 900 42298.56 79 46.9984 123.83 1303.42 Wed Mar 30 21:01:33 2005 1000 40955.05 80 40.9551 142.11 1441.92 Wed Mar 30 21:03:55 2005 with pageset localization and slab API patches: Tasks jobs/min jti jobs/min/task real cpu 1 484.19 100 484.1930 12.02 1.98 Wed Mar 30 21:10:18 2005 100 27428.25 92 274.2825 21.22 149.79 Wed Mar 30 21:10:40 2005 200 37228.94 86 186.1447 31.27 293.49 Wed Mar 30 21:11:12 2005 300 41725.42 85 139.0847 41.84 434.10 Wed Mar 30 21:11:54 2005 400 43032.22 82 107.5805 54.10 582.06 Wed Mar 30 21:12:48 2005 500 42211.23 83 84.4225 68.94 722.61 Wed Mar 30 21:13:58 2005 600 40084.49 82 66.8075 87.12 873.11 Wed Mar 30 21:15:25 2005 700 44169.30 79 63.0990 92.24 1008.77 Wed Mar 30 21:16:58 2005 800 43097.94 79 53.8724 108.03 1155.88 Wed Mar 30 21:18:47 2005 900 41846.75 79 46.4964 125.17 1303.38 Wed Mar 30 21:20:52 2005 1000 40247.85 79 40.2478 144.60 1442.21 Wed Mar 30 21:23:17 2005 Signed-off-by:Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by:
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by:
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William Lee Irwin III authored
The smp_mb() is becaus sync_page() doesn't have PG_locked while it accesses page_mapping(page). The comments in the patch (the entire patch is the addition of this comment) try to explain further how and why smp_mb() is used. Signed-off-by:
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Chris Wright authored
Always use page counts when doing RLIMIT_MEMLOCK checking to avoid possible overflow. Signed-off-by:
Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
This is a patch for counting the number of pages for bounce buffers. It's shown in /proc/vmstat. Currently, the number of bounce pages are not counted anywhere. So, if there are many bounce pages, it seems that there are leaked pages. And it's difficult for a user to imagine the usage of bounce pages. So, it's meaningful to show # of bouce pages. Signed-off-by:
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nikita Danilov authored
Make the Locking document truer. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Use the new __GFP_NOMEMALLOC to simplify the previous handling of PF_MEMALLOC. Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Mempool is pretty clever. Looks too clever for its own good :) It shouldn't really know so much about page reclaim internals. - don't guess about what effective page reclaim might involve. - don't randomly flush out all dirty data if some unlikely thing happens (alloc returns NULL). page reclaim can (sort of :P) handle it. I think the main motivation is trying to avoid pool->lock at all costs. However the first allocation is attempted with __GFP_WAIT cleared, so it will be 'can_try_harder' if it hits the page allocator. So if allocation still fails, then we can probably afford to hit the pool->lock - and what's the alternative? Try page reclaim and hit zone->lru_lock? A nice upshot is that we don't need to do any fancy memory barriers or do (intentionally) racy access to pool-> fields outside the lock. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Mempools have 2 problems. The first is that mempool_alloc can possibly get stuck in __alloc_pages when they should opt to fail, and take an element from their reserved pool. The second is that it will happily eat emergency PF_MEMALLOC reserves instead of going to their reserved pools. Fix the first by passing __GFP_NORETRY in the allocation calls in mempool_alloc. Fix the second by introducing a __GFP_MEMPOOL flag which directs the page allocator not to allocate from the reserve pool. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Jack Steiner reported this to have fixed his problem (bad colouring): "The patches fix both problems that I found - bad coloring & excessive pages in pagesets." In most workloads this is not likely to be such a pronounced problem, however it should help corner cases. And avoiding powers of 2 in these types of memory operations is always a good idea. Signed-off-by:
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Nikita Danilov authored
mm/rmap.c:page_referenced_one() and mm/rmap.c:try_to_unmap_one() contain identical code that - takes mm->page_table_lock; - drills through page tables; - checks that correct pte is reached. Coalesce this into page_check_address() Signed-off-by:
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akpm@osdl.org authored
Address bug #4508: there's potential for wraparound in the various places where we perform RLIMIT_AS checking. (I'm a bit worried about acct_stack_growth(). Are we sure that vma->vm_mm is always equal to current->mm? If not, then we're comparing some other process's total_vm with the calling process's rlimits). Signed-off-by:
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akpm@osdl.org authored
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> points out: - It calls fault_in_pages_readable() which is completely bogus if @nr_segs > 1. It needs to be replaced by a to be written "fault_in_pages_readable_iovec()". - It increments @buf even in the iovec case thus @buf can point to random memory really quickly (in the iovec case) and then it calls fault_in_pages_readable() on this random memory. Signed-off-by:
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akpm@osdl.org authored
Fix a typo. James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 30 Apr, 2005 3 commits
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Sam Ravnborg authored
Move definition of NOSTDINC_FLAGS below inclusion of arch Makefile, so any arch specific settings to $(CC) takes effect before looking up the compiler include directory. The previous solution that replaced ':=' with '=' caused gcc to be invoked one additional time for each directory visited. This decreases kernel compile time with 0.1 second (3.6 -> 3.5 seconds) when running make on a fully built kernel Signed-off-by:
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by:
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Sam Ravnborg authored
Tom Rini said: Note that there is still a trivial'ish change to make. When mkimage doesn't exist on the host we should say "uImage not made" or something similar. So I did like Tom asked. Signed-off-by:
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Sam Ravnborg authored
Removing the dependency on vmlinux for the install target raised a few complaints, so instead a new target i added: kernel_install. kernel_install will install the kernel just like the ordinary install target. The only difference is that install has a dependency on vmlinux, kernel_install does not. Therefore kernel_install is the best choice when accessing the kernel over a NFS mount or as another user. kernel_install is similar to modules_install in the fact that neither does a full kernel compile before performing the install. In this way they are good for root use. Also added back the dependency on vmlinux for the install target so peoples scripts are no longer broken. Signed-off-by:
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