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Michal Simek dfa9771a7c microblaze: fix clone syscall
Fix inadvertent breakage in the clone syscall ABI for Microblaze that
was introduced in commit f3268edbe6 ("microblaze: switch to generic
fork/vfork/clone").

The Microblaze syscall ABI for clone takes the parent tid address in the
4th argument; the third argument slot is used for the stack size.  The
incorrectly-used CLONE_BACKWARDS type assigned parent tid to the 3rd
slot.

This commit restores the original ABI so that existing userspace libc
code will work correctly.

All kernel versions from v3.8-rc1 were affected.

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-13 17:57:48 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov 0f8975ec4d mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking
The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task
writes to.  In order to do this tracking one should

  1. Clear soft-dirty bits from PTEs ("echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs)
  2. Wait some time.
  3. Read soft-dirty bits (55'th in /proc/PID/pagemap2 entries)

To do this tracking, the writable bit is cleared from PTEs when the
soft-dirty bit is.  Thus, after this, when the task tries to modify a
page at some virtual address the #PF occurs and the kernel sets the
soft-dirty bit on the respective PTE.

Note, that although all the task's address space is marked as r/o after
the soft-dirty bits clear, the #PF-s that occur after that are processed
fast.  This is so, since the pages are still mapped to physical memory,
and thus all the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts back
writable, dirty and soft-dirty bits on the PTE.

Another thing to note, is that when mremap moves PTEs they are marked
with soft-dirty as well, since from the user perspective mremap modifies
the virtual memory at mremap's new address.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 37cae5e249 Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core fixes from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Two fixlets for the fallout of the generic idle task conversion

 - Documentation update

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  rcu/idle: Wrap cpu-idle poll mode within rcu_idle_enter/exit
  idle: Fix hlt/nohlt command-line handling in new generic idle
  kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU kthreads
2013-05-15 14:04:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f8ce1faf55 We get rid of the general module prefix confusion with a binary config option,
fix a remove/insert race which Never Happens, and (my favorite) handle the
 case when we have too many modules for a single commandline.  Seriously,
 the kernel is full, please go away!
 
 Cheers,
 Rusty.
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Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

Pull mudule updates from Rusty Russell:
 "We get rid of the general module prefix confusion with a binary config
  option, fix a remove/insert race which Never Happens, and (my
  favorite) handle the case when we have too many modules for a single
  commandline.  Seriously, the kernel is full, please go away!"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  modpost: fix unwanted VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR expansion
  X.509: Support parse long form of length octets in Authority Key Identifier
  module: don't unlink the module until we've removed all exposure.
  kernel: kallsyms: memory override issue, need check destination buffer length
  MODSIGN: do not send garbage to stderr when enabling modules signature
  modpost: handle huge numbers of modules.
  modpost: add -T option to read module names from file/stdin.
  modpost: minor cleanup.
  genksyms: pass symbol-prefix instead of arch
  module: fix symbol versioning with symbol prefixes
  CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.
2013-05-05 10:58:06 -07:00
Kevin Hilman 485cf5dac2 idle: Fix hlt/nohlt command-line handling in new generic idle
commit d1669912 (idle: Implement generic idle function) added a new
generic idle along with support for hlt/nohlt command line options to
override default idle loop behavior.  However, the command-line
processing is never compiled.

The command-line handling is wrapped by CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
and arches that use this feature select it in their Kconfigs.
However, no Kconfig definition was created for this option, so it is
never enabled, and therefore command-line override of the idle-loop
behavior is broken after migrating to the generic idle loop.

To fix, add a Kconfig definition for GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP.

Tested on ARM (OMAP4/Panda) which enables the command-line overrides
by default.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366849153-25564-1-git-send-email-khilman@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2013-05-05 08:29:40 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 08d7676083 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull compat cleanup from Al Viro:
 "Mostly about syscall wrappers this time; there will be another pile
  with patches in the same general area from various people, but I'd
  rather push those after both that and vfs.git pile are in."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  syscalls.h: slightly reduce the jungles of macros
  get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments
  make do_mremap() static
  sparc: no need to sign-extend in sync_file_range() wrapper
  ppc compat wrappers for add_key(2) and request_key(2) are pointless
  x86: trim sys_ia32.h
  x86: sys32_kill and sys32_mprotect are pointless
  get rid of compat_sys_semctl() and friends in case of ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
  merge compat sys_ipc instances
  consolidate compat lookup_dcookie()
  convert vmsplice to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch getrusage() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch epoll_pwait to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  convert sendfile{,64} to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch signalfd{,4}() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  make SYSCALL_DEFINE<n>-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect
  make HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS unconditional
  consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations
  teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long
  get rid of duplicate logics in __SC_....[1-6] definitions
2013-05-01 07:21:43 -07:00
Rusty Russell b92021b09d CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.
We have CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX, which three archs define to the string
"_".  But Al Viro broke this in "consolidate cond_syscall and
SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations" (in linux-next), and he's not the first to
do so.

Using CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is awkward, since we usually just want to
prefix it so something.  So various places define helpers which are
defined to nothing if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX isn't set:

1) include/asm-generic/unistd.h defines __SYMBOL_PREFIX.
2) include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h defines VMLINUX_SYMBOL(sym)
3) include/linux/export.h defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
4) include/linux/kernel.h defines SYMBOL_PREFIX (which differs from #7)
5) kernel/modsign_certificate.S defines ASM_SYMBOL(sym)
6) scripts/modpost.c defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
7) scripts/Makefile.lib defines SYMBOL_PREFIX on the commandline if
   CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set, so that we have a non-string version
   for pasting.

(arch/h8300/include/asm/linkage.h defines SYMBOL_NAME(), too).

Let's solve this properly:
1) No more generic prefix, just CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
2) Make linux/export.h usable from asm.
3) Define VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR().
4) Make everyone use them.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> (metag)
2013-03-15 15:09:43 +10:30
Stephen Rothwell 4febd95a8a Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed
In commit 887cbce0ad ("arch Kconfig: centralise ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS")
I introduced the config sybmol HAVE_VIRT_TO_BUS and selected that where
needed.  I am not sure what I was thinking.  Instead, just directly
select VIRT_TO_BUS where it is needed.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
Al Viro 22d1a35da0 make HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS unconditional
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-03-03 22:58:30 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 8fd5e7a2d9 ImgTec Meta architecture changes for v3.9-rc1
This adds core architecture support for Imagination's Meta processor
 cores, followed by some later miscellaneous arch/metag cleanups and
 fixes which I kept separate to ease review:
 
  - Support for basic Meta 1 (ATP) and Meta 2 (HTP) core architecture
  - A few fixes all over, particularly for symbol prefixes
  - A few privilege protection fixes
  - Several cleanups (setup.c includes, split out a lot of metag_ksyms.c)
  - Fix some missing exports
  - Convert hugetlb to use vm_unmapped_area()
  - Copy device tree to non-init memory
  - Provide dma_get_sgtable()
 
 Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
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Merge tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag

Pull new ImgTec Meta architecture from James Hogan:
 "This adds core architecture support for Imagination's Meta processor
  cores, followed by some later miscellaneous arch/metag cleanups and
  fixes which I kept separate to ease review:

   - Support for basic Meta 1 (ATP) and Meta 2 (HTP) core architecture
   - A few fixes all over, particularly for symbol prefixes
   - A few privilege protection fixes
   - Several cleanups (setup.c includes, split out a lot of
     metag_ksyms.c)
   - Fix some missing exports
   - Convert hugetlb to use vm_unmapped_area()
   - Copy device tree to non-init memory
   - Provide dma_get_sgtable()"

* tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag: (61 commits)
  metag: Provide dma_get_sgtable()
  metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve()
  metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory
  metag: cleanup metag_ksyms.c includes
  metag: move mm/init.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move usercopy.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move setup.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move kick.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move traps.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move irq enable out of irqflags.h on SMP
  genksyms: fix metag symbol prefix on crc symbols
  metag: hugetlb: convert to vm_unmapped_area()
  metag: export clear_page and copy_page
  metag: export metag_code_cache_flush_all
  metag: protect more non-MMU memory regions
  metag: make TXPRIVEXT bits explicit
  metag: kernel/setup.c: sort includes
  perf: Enable building perf tools for Meta
  metag: add boot time LNKGET/LNKSET check
  metag: add __init to metag_cache_probe()
  ...
2013-03-03 12:06:09 -08:00
James Hogan c19fa94a8f Add HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
On 64 bit architectures with no efficient unaligned access, padding and
explicit alignment must be added in various places to prevent unaligned
64bit accesses (such as taskstats and trace ring buffer).

However this also needs to apply to 32 bit architectures with 64 bit
accesses requiring alignment such as metag.

This is solved by adding a new Kconfig symbol HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
which defaults to 64BIT && !HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS, and can be
explicitly selected by METAG and any other relevant architectures. This
can be used in various places to determine whether 64bit alignment is
required.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
2013-03-02 20:09:15 +00:00
Stephen Rothwell 887cbce0ad arch Kconfig: centralise CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
Change it to CONFIG_HAVE_VIRT_TO_BUS and set it in all architecures
that already provide virt_to_bus().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.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>
2013-02-27 19:10:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 9e2d59ad58 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
 "This is the first pile; another one will come a bit later and will
  contain SYSCALL_DEFINE-related patches.

   - a bunch of signal-related syscalls (both native and compat)
     unified.

   - a bunch of compat syscalls switched to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
     (fixing several potential problems with missing argument
     validation, while we are at it)

   - a lot of now-pointless wrappers killed

   - a couple of architectures (cris and hexagon) forgot to save
     altstack settings into sigframe, even though they used the
     (uninitialized) values in sigreturn; fixed.

   - microblaze fixes for delivery of multiple signals arriving at once

   - saner set of helpers for signal delivery introduced, several
     architectures switched to using those."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (143 commits)
  x86: convert to ksignal
  sparc: convert to ksignal
  arm: switch to struct ksignal * passing
  alpha: pass k_sigaction and siginfo_t using ksignal pointer
  burying unused conditionals
  make do_sigaltstack() static
  arm64: switch to generic old sigaction() (compat-only)
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigaction()
  arm64: switch compat to generic old sigsuspend
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigqueueinfo()
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigpending()
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigprocmask()
  arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack
  sparc: switch to generic old sigsuspend
  sparc: COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE does all sign-extension as well as SYSCALL_DEFINE
  sparc: kill sign-extending wrappers for native syscalls
  kill sparc32_open()
  sparc: switch to use of generic old sigaction
  sparc: switch sys_compat_rt_sigaction() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  mips: switch to generic sys_fork() and sys_clone()
  ...
2013-02-23 18:50:11 -08:00
Al Viro d64008a8f3 burying unused conditionals
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION,
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGSUSPEND,
__ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_RT_SIGSUSPEND,
__ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_SCHED_RR_GET_INTERVAL - not used anymore
CONFIG_GENERIC_{SIGALTSTACK,COMPAT_RT_SIG{ACTION,QUEUEINFO,PENDING,PROCMASK}} -
can be assumed always set.
2013-02-14 09:21:15 -05:00
Al Viro 495dfbf767 generic sys_sigaction() and compat_sys_sigaction()
conditional on OLD_SIGACTION/COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-03 15:09:23 -05:00
Al Viro 08d32fe504 generic sys_compat_rt_sigaction()
Again, protected by a temporary config symbol (GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGACTION);
will be gone by the end of series.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-03 15:09:23 -05:00
Al Viro 0a0e8cdf73 old sigsuspend variants in kernel/signal.c
conditional on OLD_SIGSUSPEND/OLD_SIGSUSPEND3, depending on which
variety of that fossil is needed.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-03 15:09:20 -05:00
Al Viro 75907d4d7b generic compat_sys_rt_sigqueueinfo()
conditional on GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGQUEUEINFO; by the end of that series
it will become the same thing as COMPAT and conditional will die out.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-03 15:09:19 -05:00
Al Viro fe9c1db2cf generic compat_sys_rt_sigpending()
conditional on GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGPENDING; by the end of that series
it will become the same thing as COMPAT and conditional will die out.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-03 15:09:19 -05:00
Al Viro 322a56cb1f generic compat_sys_rt_sigprocmask()
conditional on GENERIC_COMPAT_RT_SIGPROCMASK; by the end of that series
it will become the same thing as COMPAT and conditional will die out.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-03 15:09:19 -05:00
Al Viro eaca6eae3e sanitize rt_sigaction() situation a bit
Switch from __ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION to opposite
(!CONFIG_ODD_RT_SIGACTION); the only two architectures that
need it are alpha and sparc.  The reason for use of CONFIG_...
instead of __ARCH_... is that it's needed only kernel-side
and doing it that way avoids a mess with include order on many
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-03 15:09:18 -05:00
Masami Hiramatsu e7dbfe349d kprobes/x86: Move ftrace-based kprobe code into kprobes-ftrace.c
Split ftrace-based kprobes code from kprobes, and introduce
CONFIG_(HAVE_)KPROBES_ON_FTRACE Kconfig flags.
For the cleanup reason, this also moves kprobe_ftrace check
into skip_singlestep.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120928081520.3560.25624.stgit@ltc138.sdl.hitachi.co.jp

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-21 13:22:36 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 54d46ea993 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
 "sigaltstack infrastructure + conversion for x86, alpha and um,
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE infrastructure.

  Note that there are several conflicts between "unify
  SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions" and UAPI patches in mainline;
  resolution is trivial - just remove definitions of SS_ONSTACK and
  SS_DISABLED from arch/*/uapi/asm/signal.h; they are all identical and
  include/uapi/linux/signal.h contains the unified variant."

Fixed up conflicts as per Al.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  alpha: switch to generic sigaltstack
  new helpers: __save_altstack/__compat_save_altstack, switch x86 and um to those
  generic compat_sys_sigaltstack()
  introduce generic sys_sigaltstack(), switch x86 and um to it
  new helper: compat_user_stack_pointer()
  new helper: restore_altstack()
  unify SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions
  new helper: current_user_stack_pointer()
  missing user_stack_pointer() instances
  Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series
  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE: infrastructure
2012-12-20 18:05:28 -08:00
Al Viro 6bf9adfc90 introduce generic sys_sigaltstack(), switch x86 and um to it
Conditional on CONFIG_GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK; architectures that do not
select it are completely unaffected

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-19 18:07:40 -05:00
Al Viro ae903caae2 Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series
All architectures have
	CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD
	CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE
	__ARCH_WANT_SYS_EXECVE
None of them have __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE and there are only two callers
of kernel_execve() (which is a trivial wrapper for do_execve() now) left.
Kill the conditionals and make both callers use do_execve().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-19 18:07:38 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 7f2de8171d This single patch is effectively a no-op for now. It enables architectures
to opt in to using GCC's __builtin_bswapXX() intrinsics for byteswapping,
 and if we merge this now then the architecture maintainers can enable it
 for their arch during the next cycle without dependency issues.
 
 It's worth making it a par-arch opt-in, because although in *theory* the
 compiler should never do worse than hand-coded assembler (and of course
 it also ought to do a lot better on platforms like Atom and PowerPC which
 have load-and-swap or store-and-swap instructions), that isn't always the
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Merge tag 'byteswap-for-linus-20121219' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/byteswap

Pull preparatory gcc intrisics bswap patch from David Woodhouse:
 "This single patch is effectively a no-op for now.  It enables
  architectures to opt in to using GCC's __builtin_bswapXX() intrinsics
  for byteswapping, and if we merge this now then the architecture
  maintainers can enable it for their arch during the next cycle without
  dependency issues.

  It's worth making it a par-arch opt-in, because although in *theory*
  the compiler should never do worse than hand-coded assembler (and of
  course it also ought to do a lot better on platforms like Atom and
  PowerPC which have load-and-swap or store-and-swap instructions), that
  isn't always the case.  See

     http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46453

  for example."

* tag 'byteswap-for-linus-20121219' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/byteswap:
  byteorder: allow arch to opt to use GCC intrinsics for byteswapping
2012-12-19 07:52:48 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov 22b361d1df percpu_rw_semaphore: introduce CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM
Currently only block_dev and uprobes use percpu_rw_semaphore,
add the config option selected by BLOCK || UPROBES.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 9977d9b379 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
 "All architectures are converted to new model.  Quite a bit of that
  stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
  literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.

  A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):

   - kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.

     We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
     or kernel_execve():

     kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
     return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
     successful do_execve() before returning.

     kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
     do transition to user mode anymore.

     As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
     arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
     resp.  sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
     architecture-independent.

   - daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c

   - struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
     copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/->load_binary/do_coredump.

   - sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
     still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
     pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
     kernel/fork.c now."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
  do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
  get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
  new helper: signal_pt_regs()
  unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
  flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
  death to idle_regs()
  don't pass regs to copy_process()
  flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
  bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
  xtensa: switch to generic clone()
  openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
  unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
  score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
  take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
  mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  tile: switch to generic clone()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
2012-12-12 12:22:13 -08:00
David Woodhouse cf66bb93e0 byteorder: allow arch to opt to use GCC intrinsics for byteswapping
Since GCC 4.4, there have been __builtin_bswap32() and __builtin_bswap16()
intrinsics. A __builtin_bswap16() came a little later (4.6 for PowerPC,
48 for other platforms).

By using these instead of the inline assembler that most architectures
have in their __arch_swabXX() macros, we let the compiler see what's
actually happening. The resulting code should be at least as good, and
much *better* in the cases where it can be combined with a nearby load
or store, using a load-and-byteswap or store-and-byteswap instruction
(e.g. lwbrx/stwbrx on PowerPC, movbe on Atom).

When GCC is sufficiently recent *and* the architecture opts in to using
the intrinsics by setting CONFIG_ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP, they will be
used in preference to the __arch_swabXX() macros. An architecture which
does not set ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP will continue to use its own
hand-crafted macros.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-12-06 01:22:31 +00:00
Frederic Weisbecker 91d1aa43d3 context_tracking: New context tracking susbsystem
Create a new subsystem that probes on kernel boundaries
to keep track of the transitions between level contexts
with two basic initial contexts: user or kernel.

This is an abstraction of some RCU code that use such tracking
to implement its userspace extended quiescent state.

We need to pull this up from RCU into this new level of indirection
because this tracking is also going to be used to implement an "on
demand" generic virtual cputime accounting. A necessary step to
shutdown the tick while still accounting the cputime.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ paulmck: fix whitespace error and email address. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-11-30 11:40:07 -08:00
Al Viro d2125043ae generic sys_fork / sys_vfork / sys_clone
... and get rid of idiotic struct pt_regs * in asm-generic/syscalls.h
prototypes of the same, while we are at it.  Eventually we want those
in linux/syscalls.h, of course, but that'll have to wait a bit.

Note that there are *three* variants of sys_clone() order of arguments.
Braindamage galore...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-11-28 21:49:04 -05:00
Linus Torvalds d25282d1c9 Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull module signing support from Rusty Russell:
 "module signing is the highlight, but it's an all-over David Howells frenzy..."

Hmm "Magrathea: Glacier signing key". Somebody has been reading too much HHGTTG.

* 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (37 commits)
  X.509: Fix indefinite length element skip error handling
  X.509: Convert some printk calls to pr_devel
  asymmetric keys: fix printk format warning
  MODSIGN: Fix 32-bit overflow in X.509 certificate validity date checking
  MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files.
  MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs
  MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig
  MODSIGN: Sign modules during the build process
  MODSIGN: Provide a script for generating a key ID from an X.509 cert
  MODSIGN: Implement module signature checking
  MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel
  MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing
  MODSIGN: Provide Kconfig options
  MODSIGN: Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files
  MODSIGN: Add FIPS policy
  module: signature checking hook
  X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates
  MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI
  X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder
  X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler
  ...
2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4e21fc138b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull third pile of kernel_execve() patches from Al Viro:
 "The last bits of infrastructure for kernel_thread() et.al., with
  alpha/arm/x86 use of those.  Plus sanitizing the asm glue and
  do_notify_resume() on alpha, fixing the "disabled irq while running
  task_work stuff" breakage there.

  At that point the rest of kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve work
  can be done independently for different architectures.  The only
  pending bits that do depend on having all architectures converted are
  restrictred to fs/* and kernel/* - that'll obviously have to wait for
  the next cycle.

  I thought we'd have to wait for all of them done before we start
  eliminating the longjump-style insanity in kernel_execve(), but it
  turned out there's a very simple way to do that without flagday-style
  changes."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  alpha: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  arm: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  x86, um: convert to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics
  make sure that kernel_thread() callbacks call do_exit() themselves
  make sure that we always have a return path from kernel_execve()
  ppc: eeh_event should just use kthread_run()
  don't bother with kernel_thread/kernel_execve for launching linuxrc
  alpha: get rid of switch_stack argument of do_work_pending()
  alpha: don't bother passing switch_stack separately from regs
  alpha: take SIGPENDING/NOTIFY_RESUME loop into signal.c
  alpha: simplify TIF_NEED_RESCHED handling
2012-10-13 10:05:52 +09:00
Al Viro a74fb73c12 infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics
* allow kernel_execve() leave the actual return to userland to
caller (selected by CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE).  Callers
updated accordingly.
* architecture that does select GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE in its
Kconfig should have its ret_from_kernel_thread() do this:
	call schedule_tail
	call the callback left for it by copy_thread(); if it ever
returns, that's because it has just done successful kernel_execve()
	jump to return from syscall
IOW, its only difference from ret_from_fork() is that it does call the
callback.
* such an architecture should also get rid of ret_from_kernel_execve()
and __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE

This is the last part of infrastructure patches in that area - from
that point on work on different architectures can live independently.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12 13:35:07 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 42859eea96 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal
Pull generic execve() changes from Al Viro:
 "This introduces the generic kernel_thread() and kernel_execve()
  functions, and switches x86, arm, alpha, um and s390 over to them."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (26 commits)
  s390: convert to generic kernel_execve()
  s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into ret_from_fork()
  s390: fold execve_tail() into start_thread(), convert to generic sys_execve()
  um: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  x86, um/x86: switch to generic sys_execve and kernel_execve
  x86: split ret_from_fork
  alpha: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
  alpha: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  alpha: switch to generic sys_execve()
  arm: get rid of execve wrapper, switch to generic execve() implementation
  arm: optimized current_pt_regs()
  arm: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
  arm: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() [based on patch by rmk]
  generic sys_execve()
  generic kernel_execve()
  new helper: current_pt_regs()
  preparation for generic kernel_thread()
  um: kill thread->forking
  um: let signal_delivered() do SIGTRAP on singlestepping into handler
  ...
2012-10-10 12:02:25 +09:00
Gerald Schaefer 15626062f4 thp, x86: introduce HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
Cleanup patch in preparation for transparent hugepage support on s390.
Adding new architectures to the TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE config option can
make the "depends" line rather ugly, like "depends on (X86 || (S390 &&
64BIT)) && MMU".

This patch adds a HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE instead.  x86 already has
MMU "def_bool y", so the MMU check is superfluous there and
HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE can be selected in arch/x86/Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-09 16:22:29 +09:00
Linus Torvalds 0b981cb94b Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Continued quest to clean up and enhance the cputime code by Frederic
  Weisbecker, in preparation for future tickless kernel features.

  Other than that, smallish changes."

Fix up trivial conflicts due to additions next to each other in arch/{x86/}Kconfig

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  cputime: Make finegrained irqtime accounting generally available
  cputime: Gather time/stats accounting config options into a single menu
  ia64: Reuse system and user vtime accounting functions on task switch
  ia64: Consolidate user vtime accounting
  vtime: Consolidate system/idle context detection
  cputime: Use a proper subsystem naming for vtime related APIs
  sched: cpu_power: enable ARCH_POWER
  sched/nohz: Clean up select_nohz_load_balancer()
  sched: Fix load avg vs. cpu-hotplug
  sched: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
  sched: Fix nohz_idle_balance()
  sched: Remove useless code in yield_to()
  sched: Add time unit suffix to sched sysctl knobs
  sched/debug: Limit sd->*_idx range on sysctl
  sched: Remove AFFINE_WAKEUPS feature flag
  s390: Remove leftover account_tick_vtime() header
  cputime: Consolidate vtime handling on context switch
  sched: Move cputime code to its own file
  cputime: Generalize CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
  tile: Remove SD_PREFER_LOCAL leftover
  ...
2012-10-01 10:43:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7e92daaefa Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf update from Ingo Molnar:
 "Lots of changes in this cycle as well, with hundreds of commits from
  over 30 contributors.  Most of the activity was on the tooling side.

  Higher level changes:

   - New 'perf kvm' analysis tool, from Xiao Guangrong.

   - New 'perf trace' system-wide tracing tool

   - uprobes fixes + cleanups from Oleg Nesterov.

   - Lots of patches to make perf build on Android out of box, from
     Irina Tirdea

   - Extend ftrace function tracing utility to be more dynamic for its
     users.  It allows for data passing to the callback functions, as
     well as reading regs as if a breakpoint were to trigger at function
     entry.

     The main goal of this patch series was to allow kprobes to use
     ftrace as an optimized probe point when a probe is placed on an
     ftrace nop.  With lots of help from Masami Hiramatsu, and going
     through lots of iterations, we finally came up with a good
     solution.

   - Add cpumask for uncore pmu, use it in 'stat', from Yan, Zheng.

   - Various tracing updates from Steve Rostedt

   - Clean up and improve 'perf sched' performance by elliminating lots
     of needless calls to libtraceevent.

   - Event group parsing support, from Jiri Olsa

   - UI/gtk refactorings and improvements from Namhyung Kim

   - Add support for non-tracepoint events in perf script python, from
     Feng Tang

   - Add --symbols to 'script', similar to the one in 'report', from
     Feng Tang.

  Infrastructure enhancements and fixes:

   - Convert the trace builtins to use the growing evsel/evlist
     tracepoint infrastructure, removing several open coded constructs
     like switch like series of strcmp to dispatch events, etc.
     Basically what had already been showcased in 'perf sched'.

   - Add evsel constructor for tracepoints, that uses libtraceevent just
     to parse the /format events file, use it in a new 'perf test' to
     make sure the libtraceevent format parsing regressions can be more
     readily caught.

   - Some strange errors were happening in some builds, but not on the
     next, reported by several people, problem was some parser related
     files, generated during the build, didn't had proper make deps, fix
     from Eric Sandeen.

   - Introduce struct and cache information about the environment where
     a perf.data file was captured, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Fix handling of unresolved samples when --symbols is used in
     'report', from Feng Tang.

   - Add union member access support to 'probe', from Hyeoncheol Lee.

   - Fixups to die() removal, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Render fixes for the TUI, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Don't enable annotation in non symbolic view, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Fix pipe mode in 'report', from Namhyung Kim.

   - Move related stats code from stat to util/, will be used by the
     'stat' kvm tool, from Xiao Guangrong.

   - Remove die()/exit() calls from several tools.

   - Resolve vdso callchains, from Jiri Olsa

   - Don't pass const char pointers to basename, so that we can
     unconditionally use libgen.h and thus avoid ifdef BIONIC lines,
     from David Ahern

   - Refactor hist formatting so that it can be reused with the GTK
     browser, From Namhyung Kim

   - Fix build for another rbtree.c change, from Adrian Hunter.

   - Make 'perf diff' command work with evsel hists, from Jiri Olsa.

   - Use the only field_sep var that is set up: symbol_conf.field_sep,
     fix from Jiri Olsa.

   - .gitignore compiled python binaries, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Get rid of die() in more libtraceevent places, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Rename libtraceevent 'private' struct member to 'priv' so that it
     works in C++, from Steven Rostedt

   - Remove lots of exit()/die() calls from tools so that the main perf
     exit routine can take place, from David Ahern

   - Fix x86 build on x86-64, from David Ahern.

   - {int,str,rb}list fixes from Suzuki K Poulose

   - perf.data header fixes from Namhyung Kim

   - Allow user to indicate objdump path, needed in cross environments,
     from Maciek Borzecki

   - Fix hardware cache event name generation, fix from Jiri Olsa

   - Add round trip test for sw, hw and cache event names, catching the
     problem Jiri fixed, after Jiri's patch, the test passes
     successfully.

   - Clean target should do clean for lib/traceevent too, fix from David
     Ahern

   - Check the right variable for allocation failure, fix from Namhyung
     Kim

   - Set up evsel->tp_format regardless of evsel->name being set
     already, fix from Namhyung Kim

   - Oprofile fixes from Robert Richter.

   - Remove perf_event_attr needless version inflation, from Jiri Olsa

   - Introduce libtraceevent strerror like error reporting facility,
     from Namhyung Kim

   - Add pmu mappings to perf.data header and use event names from cmd
     line, from Robert Richter

   - Fix include order for bison/flex-generated C files, from Ben
     Hutchings

   - Build fixes and documentation corrections from David Ahern

   - Assorted cleanups from Robert Richter

   - Let O= makes handle relative paths, from Steven Rostedt

   - perf script python fixes, from Feng Tang.

   - Initial bash completion support, from Frederic Weisbecker

   - Allow building without libelf, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Support DWARF CFI based unwind to have callchains when %bp based
     unwinding is not possible, from Jiri Olsa.

   - Symbol resolution fixes, while fixing support PPC64 files with an
     .opt ELF section was the end goal, several fixes for code that
     handles all architectures and cleanups are included, from Cody
     Schafer.

   - Assorted fixes for Documentation and build in 32 bit, from Robert
     Richter

   - Cache the libtraceevent event_format associated to each evsel
     early, so that we avoid relookups, i.e.  calling pevent_find_event
     repeatedly when processing tracepoint events.

     [ This is to reduce the surface contact with libtraceevents and
        make clear what is that the perf tools needs from that lib: so
        far parsing the common and per event fields.  ]

   - Don't stop the build if the audit libraries are not installed, fix
     from Namhyung Kim.

   - Fix bfd.h/libbfd detection with recent binutils, from Markus
     Trippelsdorf.

   - Improve warning message when libunwind devel packages not present,
     from Jiri Olsa"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (282 commits)
  perf trace: Add aliases for some syscalls
  perf probe: Print an enum type variable in "enum variable-name" format when showing accessible variables
  perf tools: Check libaudit availability for perf-trace builtin
  perf hists: Add missing period_* fields when collapsing a hist entry
  perf trace: New tool
  perf evsel: Export the event_format constructor
  perf evsel: Introduce rawptr() method
  perf tools: Use perf_evsel__newtp in the event parser
  perf evsel: The tracepoint constructor should store sys:name
  perf evlist: Introduce set_filter() method
  perf evlist: Renane set_filters method to apply_filters
  perf test: Add test to check we correctly parse and match syscall open parms
  perf evsel: Handle endianity in intval method
  perf evsel: Know if byte swap is needed
  perf tools: Allow handling a NULL cpu_map as meaning "all cpus"
  perf evsel: Improve tracepoint constructor setup
  tools lib traceevent: Fix error path on pevent_parse_event
  perf test: Fix build failure
  trace: Move trace event enable from fs_initcall to core_initcall
  tracing: Add an option for disabling markers
  ...
2012-10-01 10:28:49 -07:00
Al Viro 2aa3a7f866 preparation for generic kernel_thread()
Let architectures select GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD and have their copy_thread()
treat NULL regs as "it came from kernel_thread(), sp argument contains
the function new thread will be calling and stack_size - the argument for
that function".  Switching the architectures begins shortly...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-30 13:35:55 -04:00
David Howells 786d35d45c Make most arch asm/module.h files use asm-generic/module.h
Use the mapping of Elf_[SPE]hdr, Elf_Addr, Elf_Sym, Elf_Dyn, Elf_Rel/Rela,
ELF_R_TYPE() and ELF_R_SYM() to either the 32-bit version or the 64-bit version
into asm-generic/module.h for all arches bar MIPS.

Also, use the generic definition mod_arch_specific where possible.

To this end, I've defined three new config bools:

 (*) HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC

     Arches define this if they don't want to use the empty generic
     mod_arch_specific struct.

 (*) MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA

     Arches define this if their modules can contain RELA records.  This causes
     the Elf_Rela mapping to be emitted and allows apply_relocate_add() to be
     defined by the arch rather than have the core emit an error message.

 (*) MODULES_USE_ELF_REL

     Arches define this if their modules can contain REL records.  This causes
     the Elf_Rel mapping to be emitted and allows apply_relocate() to be
     defined by the arch rather than have the core emit an error message.

Note that it is possible to allow both REL and RELA records: m68k and mips are
two arches that do this.

With this, some arch asm/module.h files can be deleted entirely and replaced
with a generic-y marker in the arch Kbuild file.

Additionally, I have removed the bits from m32r and score that handle the
unsupported type of relocation record as that's now handled centrally.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-09-28 14:31:03 +09:30
Frederic Weisbecker 2b1d5024e1 rcu: Settle config for userspace extended quiescent state
Create a new config option under the RCU menu that put
CPUs under RCU extended quiescent state (as in dynticks
idle mode) when they run in userspace. This require
some contribution from architectures to hook into kernel
and userspace boundaries.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-09-26 15:44:04 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker fdf9c35650 cputime: Make finegrained irqtime accounting generally available
There is no known reason for this option to be unavailable on other
archs than x86. They just need to call enable_sched_clock_irqtime()
if they have a sufficiently finegrained clock to make it working.

Move it to the general option and let the user choose between
it and pure tick based or virtual cputime accounting.

Note that virtual cputime accounting already performs a finegrained
irqtime accounting. CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING is a kind of middle ground
between tick and virtual based accounting. So CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
and CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING are mutually exclusive choices.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2012-09-25 16:01:36 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker b952741c80 cputime: Generalize CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING
S390, ia64 and powerpc all define their own version
of CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING. Generalize the config
and its description to a single place to avoid
duplication.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2012-08-17 16:31:08 +02:00
Jiri Olsa c5ebcedb56 perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample
Introducing PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER sample type bit to trigger the dump
of the user level stack on sample. The size of the dump is specified by
sample_stack_user value.

Being able to dump parts of the user stack, starting from the stack
pointer, will be useful to make a post mortem dwarf CFI based stack
unwinding.

Added HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP config option to determine if the
architecture provides user stack dump on perf event samples.  This needs
access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across
architectures. Enabling this for x86 architecture.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-10 12:17:58 -03:00
Jiri Olsa c5e63197db perf: Unified API to record selective sets of arch registers
This brings a new API to help the selective dump of registers on event
sampling, and its implementation for x86 arch.

Added HAVE_PERF_REGS config option to determine if the architecture
provides perf registers ABI.

The information about desired registers will be passed in u64 mask.
It's up to the architecture to map the registers into the mask bits.

For the x86 arch implementation, both 32 and 64 bit registers bits are
defined within single enum to ensure 64 bit system can provide register
dump for compat task if needed in the future.

Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
[ Added missing linux/errno.h include ]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-10 11:21:37 -03:00
Will Deacon c1d7e01d78 ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION
Rather than #define the options manually in the architecture code, add
Kconfig options for them and select them there instead.  This also allows
us to select the compat IPC version parsing automatically for platforms
using the old compat IPC interface.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30 17:25:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d484864dd9 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping
Pull CMA and ARM DMA-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski:
 "These patches contain two major updates for DMA mapping subsystem
  (mainly for ARM architecture).  First one is Contiguous Memory
  Allocator (CMA) which makes it possible for device drivers to allocate
  big contiguous chunks of memory after the system has booted.

  The main difference from the similar frameworks is the fact that CMA
  allows to transparently reuse the memory region reserved for the big
  chunk allocation as a system memory, so no memory is wasted when no
  big chunk is allocated.  Once the alloc request is issued, the
  framework migrates system pages to create space for the required big
  chunk of physically contiguous memory.

  For more information one can refer to nice LWN articles:

   - 'A reworked contiguous memory allocator':
		http://lwn.net/Articles/447405/

   - 'CMA and ARM':
		http://lwn.net/Articles/450286/

   - 'A deep dive into CMA':
		http://lwn.net/Articles/486301/

   - and the following thread with the patches and links to all previous
     versions:
		https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/3/204

  The main client for this new framework is ARM DMA-mapping subsystem.

  The second part provides a complete redesign in ARM DMA-mapping
  subsystem.  The core implementation has been changed to use common
  struct dma_map_ops based infrastructure with the recent updates for
  new dma attributes merged in v3.4-rc2.  This allows to use more than
  one implementation of dma-mapping calls and change/select them on the
  struct device basis.  The first client of this new infractructure is
  dmabounce implementation which has been completely cut out of the
  core, common code.

  The last patch of this redesign update introduces a new, experimental
  implementation of dma-mapping calls on top of generic IOMMU framework.
  This lets ARM sub-platform to transparently use IOMMU for DMA-mapping
  calls if one provides required IOMMU hardware.

  For more information please refer to the following thread:
		http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg175729.html

  The last patch merges changes from both updates and provides a
  resolution for the conflicts which cannot be avoided when patches have
  been applied on the same files (mainly arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c)."

Acked by Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
 "Yup, this one please.  It's had much work, plenty of review and I
  think even Russell is happy with it."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping: (28 commits)
  ARM: dma-mapping: use PMD size for section unmap
  cma: fix migration mode
  ARM: integrate CMA with DMA-mapping subsystem
  X86: integrate CMA with DMA-mapping subsystem
  drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator
  mm: trigger page reclaim in alloc_contig_range() to stabilise watermarks
  mm: extract reclaim code from __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim()
  mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes
  mm: page_isolation: MIGRATE_CMA isolation functions added
  mm: mmzone: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added
  mm: page_alloc: change fallbacks array handling
  mm: page_alloc: introduce alloc_contig_range()
  mm: compaction: export some of the functions
  mm: compaction: introduce isolate_freepages_range()
  mm: compaction: introduce map_pages()
  mm: compaction: introduce isolate_migratepages_range()
  mm: page_alloc: remove trailing whitespace
  ARM: dma-mapping: add support for IOMMU mapper
  ARM: dma-mapping: use alloc, mmap, free from dma_ops
  ARM: dma-mapping: remove redundant code and do the cleanup
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
2012-05-25 09:18:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 654443e20d Merge branch 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull user-space probe instrumentation from Ingo Molnar:
 "The uprobes code originates from SystemTap and has been used for years
  in Fedora and RHEL kernels.  This version is much rewritten, reviews
  from PeterZ, Oleg and myself shaped the end result.

  This tree includes uprobes support in 'perf probe' - but SystemTap
  (and other tools) can take advantage of user probe points as well.

  Sample usage of uprobes via perf, for example to profile malloc()
  calls without modifying user-space binaries.

  First boot a new kernel with CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT=y enabled.

  If you don't know which function you want to probe you can pick one
  from 'perf top' or can get a list all functions that can be probed
  within libc (binaries can be specified as well):

	$ perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6

  To probe libc's malloc():

	$ perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc
	Added new event:
	probe_libc:malloc    (on 0x7eac0)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

	perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 1

  Make use of it to create a call graph (as the flat profile is going to
  look very boring):

	$ perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -gR make
	[ perf record: Woken up 173 times to write data ]
	[ perf record: Captured and wrote 44.190 MB perf.data (~1930712

	$ perf report | less

	  32.03%            git  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                    |
	                    --- malloc

	  29.49%            cc1  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                    |
	                    --- malloc
	                       |
	                       |--0.95%-- 0x208eb1000000000
	                       |
	                       |--0.63%-- htab_traverse_noresize

	  11.04%             as  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                     |
	                     --- malloc
	                        |

	   7.15%             ld  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                     |
	                     --- malloc
	                        |

	   5.07%             sh  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                     |
	                     --- malloc
	                        |
	   4.99%  python-config  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          |
	          --- malloc
	             |
	   4.54%           make  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                   |
	                   --- malloc
	                      |
	                      |--7.34%-- glob
	                      |          |
	                      |          |--93.18%-- 0x41588f
	                      |          |
	                      |           --6.82%-- glob
	                      |                     0x41588f

	   ...

  Or:

	$ perf report -g flat | less

	# Overhead        Command  Shared Object      Symbol
	# ........  .............  .............  ..........
	#
	  32.03%            git  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          27.19%
	              malloc

	  29.49%            cc1  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          24.77%
	              malloc

	  11.04%             as  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          11.02%
	              malloc

	   7.15%             ld  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	           6.57%
	              malloc

	 ...

  The core uprobes design is fairly straightforward: uprobes probe
  points register themselves at (inode:offset) addresses of
  libraries/binaries, after which all existing (or new) vmas that map
  that address will have a software breakpoint injected at that address.
  vmas are COW-ed to preserve original content.  The probe points are
  kept in an rbtree.

  If user-space executes the probed inode:offset instruction address
  then an event is generated which can be recovered from the regular
  perf event channels and mmap-ed ring-buffer.

  Multiple probes at the same address are supported, they create a
  dynamic callback list of event consumers.

  The basic model is further complicated by the XOL speedup: the
  original instruction that is probed is copied (in an architecture
  specific fashion) and executed out of line when the probe triggers.
  The XOL area is a single vma per process, with a fixed number of
  entries (which limits probe execution parallelism).

  The API: uprobes are installed/removed via
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events, the API is integrated to
  align with the kprobes interface as much as possible, but is separate
  to it.

  Injecting a probe point is privileged operation, which can be relaxed
  by setting perf_paranoid to -1.

  You can use multiple probes as well and mix them with kprobes and
  regular PMU events or tracepoints, when instrumenting a task."

Fix up trivial conflicts in mm/memory.c due to previous cleanup of
unmap_single_vma().

* 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  perf probe: Detect probe target when m/x options are absent
  perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes
  tracing: Fix kconfig warning due to a typo
  tracing: Provide trace events interface for uprobes
  tracing: Extract out common code for kprobes/uprobes trace events
  tracing: Modify is_delete, is_return from int to bool
  uprobes/core: Decrement uprobe count before the pages are unmapped
  uprobes/core: Make background page replacement logic account for rss_stat counters
  uprobes/core: Optimize probe hits with the help of a counter
  uprobes/core: Allocate XOL slots for uprobes use
  uprobes/core: Handle breakpoint and singlestep exceptions
  uprobes/core: Rename bkpt to swbp
  uprobes/core: Make order of function parameters consistent across functions
  uprobes/core: Make macro names consistent
  uprobes: Update copyright notices
  uprobes/core: Move insn to arch specific structure
  uprobes/core: Remove uprobe_opcode_sz
  uprobes/core: Make instruction tables volatile
  uprobes: Move to kernel/events/
  uprobes/core: Clean up, refactor and improve the code
  ...
2012-05-24 11:39:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds cb60e3e65c Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "New notable features:
   - The seccomp work from Will Drewry
   - PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS from Andy Lutomirski
   - Longer security labels for Smack from Casey Schaufler
   - Additional ptrace restriction modes for Yama by Kees Cook"

Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig and include/linux/filter.h

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (65 commits)
  apparmor: fix long path failure due to disconnected path
  apparmor: fix profile lookup for unconfined
  ima: fix filename hint to reflect script interpreter name
  KEYS: Don't check for NULL key pointer in key_validate()
  Smack: allow for significantly longer Smack labels v4
  gfp flags for security_inode_alloc()?
  Smack: recursive tramsmute
  Yama: replace capable() with ns_capable()
  TOMOYO: Accept manager programs which do not start with / .
  KEYS: Add invalidation support
  KEYS: Do LRU discard in full keyrings
  KEYS: Permit in-place link replacement in keyring list
  KEYS: Perform RCU synchronisation on keys prior to key destruction
  KEYS: Announce key type (un)registration
  KEYS: Reorganise keys Makefile
  KEYS: Move the key config into security/keys/Kconfig
  KEYS: Use the compat keyctl() syscall wrapper on Sparc64 for Sparc32 compat
  Yama: remove an unused variable
  samples/seccomp: fix dependencies on arch macros
  Yama: add additional ptrace scopes
  ...
2012-05-21 20:27:36 -07:00
Marek Szyprowski c64be2bb1c drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator
The Contiguous Memory Allocator is a set of helper functions for DMA
mapping framework that improves allocations of contiguous memory chunks.

CMA grabs memory on system boot, marks it with MIGRATE_CMA migrate type
and gives back to the system. Kernel is allowed to allocate only movable
pages within CMA's managed memory so that it can be used for example for
page cache when DMA mapping do not use it. On
dma_alloc_from_contiguous() request such pages are migrated out of CMA
area to free required contiguous block and fulfill the request. This
allows to allocate large contiguous chunks of memory at any time
assuming that there is enough free memory available in the system.

This code is heavily based on earlier works by Michal Nazarewicz.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Tested-by: Rob Clark <rob.clark@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com>
2012-05-21 15:09:37 +02:00