- 12 Oct, 2005 5 commits
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David S. Miller authored
The sequence to move over to the Linux trap tables from the firmware ones needs to be more air tight. It turns out that to be %100 safe we do need to be able to translate OBP mappings in our TLB miss handlers early. In order not to eat up a lot of kernel image memory with static page tables, just use the translations array in the OBP TLB miss handlers. That solves the bulk of the problem. Furthermore, to make sure the OBP TLB miss path will work even before the fixed MMU globals are loaded, explicitly load %g1 to TLB_SFSR at the beginning of the i-TLB and d-TLB miss handlers. To ease the OBP TLB miss walking of the prom_trans[] array, we sort it then delete all of the non-OBP entries in there (for example, there are entries for the kernel image itself which we're not interested in at all). We also save about 32K of kernel image size with this change. Not a bad side effect :-) There are still some reasons why trampoline.S can't use the setup_trap_table() yet. The most noteworthy are: 1) OBP boots secondary processors with non-bias'd stack for some reason. This is easily fixed by using a small bootup stack in the kernel image explicitly for this purpose. 2) Doing a firmware call via the normal C call prom_set_trap_table() goes through the whole OBP enter/exit sequence that saves and restores OBP and Linux kernel state in the MMUs. This path unfortunately does a "flush %g6" while loading up the OBP locked TLB entries for the firmware call. If we setup the %g6 in the trampoline.S code properly, that is in the PAGE_OFFSET linear mapping, but we're not on the kernel trap table yet so those addresses won't translate properly. One idea is to do a by-hand firmware call like we do in the early bootup code and elsewhere here in trampoline.S But this fails as well, as aparently the secondary processors are not booted with OBP's special locked TLB entries loaded. These are necessary for the firwmare to processes TLB misses correctly up until the point where we take over the trap table. This does need to be resolved at some point. Signed-off-by:David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Glibc is about to get some new high precision timer stuff that relies on the standard timebase of the PPC architecture. However, some (rare & old) CPUs do not have such timebase and it is a bit annoying to have your stuff just crash because you are running on the wrong CPU... This exposes to userland a CPU feature bit that tells that the current processor doesn't have a standard timebase. It's negative logic so that glibc will still "just work" on older kernels (it will just be unhappy on those old CPUs but that doesn't really matter as distro tend to update glibc & kernel at the same time). Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Interestingly enough, ppc32 had broken timekeeping for ages... It worked, but probably drifted a bit more than could be explained by the actual bad precision of the timebase calibration. We discovered that recently when somebody figured out that the common code was using CLOCK_TICK_RATE to correct the timekeeing, and ppc32 had a completely bogus value for it. This patch turns it into something saner. Probably not as good as doing something based on the actual timebase frequency precision but I'll leave that sort of math to others. This at least makes it better for the common HZ values. Signed-off-by:
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Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso authored
Give an empty definition for clear_can_do_skas() when it is not needed. Thanks to Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> for reporting the breakage and providing a fix (I re-fixed it in an IMHO cleaner way). Signed-off-by:
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Dike authored
The patch to use host AIO support that I submitted early after 2.6.13 exposed some problems in the block driver. I have fixes for these, but am not comfortable putting them into 2.6.14 at this late date. So, this patch reverts the use of host AIO. I will resubmit the original patch, plus fixes to the driver after 2.6.14 in order to get a reasonable amount of testing before they're exposed to the general public. Signed-off-by:
Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 11 Oct, 2005 17 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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David S. Miller authored
We were not doing alignment properly when remapping the kernel image. What we want is a 4MB aligned physical address to map at KERNBASE. Mistakedly we were 4MB aligning the virtual address where the kernel initially sits, that's wrong. Instead, we should PAGE align the virtual address, then 4MB align the physical address result the prom gives to us. Signed-off-by: -
Hugh Dickins authored
Refuse to install a page into a mapping if the mapping count is already ridiculously large. You probably cannot trigger this on 32-bit architectures, but on a 64-bit setup we should protect against it. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Bergner authored
Newer gcc's are generating this relocation, so the module loader needs to handle it. Signed-off-by:
Peter Bergner <bergner@vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
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Michael Krufky authored
* bttv-cards.c: - Enable S-Video input on DViCO FusionHDTV5 Lite Signed-off-by:
Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by:
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by:
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Hirokazu Takata authored
This patch prevents illegal traps from causing m32r kernel's infinite loop execution. Signed-off-by:
Naoto Sugai <sugai@isl.melco.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by:
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akpm@osdl.org authored
Nir Tzachar <tzachar@cs.bgu.ac.il> points out that if an ELF file specifies a zero-length bss at a whacky address, we cannot load that binary because padzero() tries to zero out the end of the page at the whacky address, and that may not be writeable. See also http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5411 So teach load_elf_binary() to skip the bss settng altogether if the elf file has a zero-length bss segment. Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> Signed-off-by:
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Paolo Galtieri authored
I've noticed that the calculations for seg_size and nr_segs in __dma_sync_page_highmem() (arch/ppc/kernel/dma-mapping.c) are wrong. The incorrect calculations can result in either an oops or a panic when running fsck depending on the size of the partition. The problem with the seg_size calculation is that it can result in a negative number if size is offset > size. The problem with the nr_segs caculation is returns the wrong number of segments, e.g. it returns 1 when size is 200 and offset is 4095, when it should return 2 or more. Acked-by:
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Suzuki authored
Revert this recent correctness change: Douglas Crosher <dcrosher@scieneer.com> reported that it broke an existing application, and that madvise() works without error on anonymous mappings on Solaris. This means that madvise() will remain non-standards-compliant: we should return -EBADF for all requests against non-file-backed vma's, but Linux only does this for MADV_WILLNEED requests. Signed-off-by:
Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andreas Gruenbacher authored
Here is a compatibility fix between Linux and Solaris when used with VxFS filesystems: Solaris usually accepts acl entries in any order, but with VxFS it replies with NFSERR_INVAL when it sees a four-entry acl that is not in canonical form. It may also fail with other non-canonical acls -- I can't tell, because that case never triggers: We only send non-canonical acls when we fake up an ACL_MASK entry. Instead of adding fake ACL_MASK entries at the end, inserting them in the correct position makes Solaris+VxFS happy. The Linux client and server sides don't care about entry order. The three-entry-acl special case in which we need a fake ACL_MASK entry was handled in xdr_nfsace_encode. The patch moves this into nfsacl_encode. Signed-off-by:
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Acked-by:
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by:
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Latchesar Ionkov authored
v9fs_file_read and v9fs_file_write use kmalloc to allocate buffers as big as the data buffer received as parameter. kmalloc cannot be used to allocate buffers bigger than 128K, so reading/writing data in chunks bigger than 128k fails. This patch reorganizes v9fs_file_read and v9fs_file_write to allocate only buffers as big as the maximum data that can be sent in one 9P message. Signed-off-by:
Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Abhay Salunke authored
In the current dell_rbu code ver 2.0 the packet update mechanism makes the user app dump every individual packet in to the driver. This adds in efficiency as every packet update makes the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading and data files to disappear and reappear again. Thus the user app needs to wait for the files to reappear to dump another packet. This slows down the packet update tremendously in case of large number of packets. I am submitting a new patch for dell_rbu which will change the way we do packet updates; In the new method the user app will create a new single file which has already packetized the rbu image and all the packets are now staged in this file. This driver also creates a new entry in /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size ; the user needs to echo the packet size here before downloading the packet file. The user should do the following: create one single file which has all the packets stacked together. echo the packet size in to /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size. echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading cat the packetfile > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading The driver takes the file which came through /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data and takes chunks of paket_size data from it and place in contiguous memory. This makes packet update process very efficient and fast. As all the packet update happens in one single operation. The user can still read back the downloaded file from /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data. Signed-off-by:
Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com> Signed-off-by:
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Anton Blanchard authored
pSeries_irq_bus_setup is marked __devinit but references s7a_workaround which is marked __initdata. Depending on who got the memory for s7a_workaround (and if the value was now positive), it was possible for PCI hotplugged devices to have 3 subtracted from their interrupt number. This would happen randomly and caused me much confusion :) Signed-off-by:
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Cornelia Huck authored
Search for a disconnect ccw_device on the ccw bus rather than on the css bus (was a typo in patch I did for the klist conversion). A cast to an embedding ccw_device from an embedded device in a struct subchannel will lead us to oopses. Signed-off-by:
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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David S. Miller authored
Breakage noted by Al Viro. It breaks non-PCI builds, it's probably better to have a more direct implementation on sparc32, and which driver actually needs this is still questionable. We can resolve this in 2.6.15 Signed-off-by: -
David S. Miller authored
Incorrect uart_write_wakeup() calls cause reference to a NULL tty pointer in sunsab and sunzilog serial drivers. Signed-off-by: -
Linus Torvalds authored
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- 10 Oct, 2005 18 commits
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Andi Kleen authored
Need to use long long, not long when RMWing a MSR. I think it's harmless right now, but still should be better fixed if AMD adds any bits in the upper 32bit of HWCR. Bug was introduced with the TLB flush filter fix for i386 Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Andi Kleen authored
CPU hotplug fills up the possible map to NR_CPUs, but it did that after setting up per CPU data. This lead to CPU data not getting allocated for all possible CPUs, which lead to various side effects. Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
All the same issues - we can't just save the pointer to the thread, we must save the pid/uid/euid combination. Signed-off-by: -
Harald Welte authored
If a process issues an URB from userspace and (starts to) terminate before the URB comes back, we run into the issue described above. This is because the urb saves a pointer to "current" when it is posted to the device, but there's no guarantee that this pointer is still valid afterwards. In fact, there are three separate issues: 1) the pointer to "current" can become invalid, since the task could be completely gone when the URB completion comes back from the device. 2) Even if the saved task pointer is still pointing to a valid task_struct, task_struct->sighand could have gone meanwhile. 3) Even if the process is perfectly fine, permissions may have changed, and we can no longer send it a signal. So what we do instead, is to save the PID and uid's of the process, and introduce a new kill_proc_info_as_uid() function. Signed-off-by:
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> [ Fixed up types and added symbol exports ] Signed-off-by:
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David S. Miller authored
On the boot processor, we need to do the move onto the Linux trap table a little bit differently else we'll take unhandlable faults in the firmware address space. Previously we would do the following: 1) Disable PSTATE_IE in %pstate. 2) Set %tba by hand to sparc64_ttable_tl0 3) Initialize alternate, mmu, and interrupt global trap registers. 4) Call prom_set_traptable() That doesn't work very well actually with the way we boot the kernel VM these days. It worked by luck on many systems because the firmware accesses for the prom_set_traptable() call happened to be loaded into the TLB already, something we cannot assume. So the new scheme is this: 1) Clear PSTATE_IE in %pstate and set %pil to 15 2) Call prom_set_traptable() 3) Initialize alternate, mmu, and interrupt global trap registers. and this works quite well. This sequence has been moved into a callable function in assembler named setup-trap_table(). The idea is that eventually trampoline.S can use this code as well. That isn't possible currently due to some complications, but eventually we should be able to do it. Thanks to Meelis Roos for the Ultra5 boot failure report. Signed-off-by: -
Andi Kleen authored
Noticed by Terence Ripperda Undo wrong change in global_flush_tlb. We need to flush the caches in all cases, not just when pages were reverted. This was a bogus optimization added earlier, but it was wrong. Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Vincent Sanders authored
Patch from Vincent Sanders Add a defconfig for the ARM Collie platform Signed-off-by:
Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by:
Vincent Sanders <vince@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Vincent Sanders authored
Patch from Vincent Sanders Add a defconfig for the ARM Corgi Zarus platform Signed-off-by:
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Vincent Sanders authored
Patch from Vincent Sanders Add a defconfig for the ARM Poodle Zarus platform Signed-off-by:
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Vincent Sanders authored
Patch from Vincent Sanders Add a defconfig for the ARM Spitz Zarus platform Signed-off-by:
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Nicolas Pitre authored
Patch from Nicolas Pitre drivers/mfd/ucb1x00-core.c: In function 'ucb1x00_probe': drivers/mfd/ucb1x00-core.c:482: error: 'ucb1x00_class' undeclared (first use in this function) Signed-off-by:
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by:
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Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer authored
This fixes the setup of the alignment of the signal frame, so that all signal handlers are run with a properly aligned stack frame. The current code "over-aligns" the stack pointer so that the stack frame is effectively always mis-aligned by 4 bytes. But what we really want is that on function entry ((sp + 4) & 15) == 0, which matches what would happen if the stack were aligned before a "call" instruction. Signed-off-by:
Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer <markus@oberhumer.com> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
The logic in ide_do_request() doesn't guarantee that both drives will be serviced after a call. It may "forget" to service one in some circumstances, including when one of the drive is suspended (it will eventually fail to service the slave when the master is suspended for example). This prevents the wakeup requests that gets queued on wakeup from sleep from beeing serviced in some cases when 2 drives are sharing an IDE bus. The problem is deep enough in the way this code works (and there are probably a few other problematic but rare corner cases) and fixing it would require some major rethinking of the way IDE decides which channel to service. This is not 2.6.14 material. However, in the meantime, Bart has accepted this simple workaround that will fix the crash on wakeup from sleep since this specific corner case is actually hitting users to get into 2.6.14. Signed-off-by:
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Tom Zanussi authored
The third param in this call to vmap shouldn't be GFP_KERNEL, which makes no sense, but rather VM_MAP. Thanks to Al Viro for spotting this. Signed-off-by:
Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
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