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Christian Ehrhardt 96567161de [PATCH] s390: Increase spinlock retry code performance
Currently the code tries up to spin_retry times to grab a lock using the cs
instruction.  The cs instruction has exclusive access to a memory region
and therefore invalidates the appropiate cache line of all other cpus.  If
there is contention on a lock this leads to cache line trashing.  This can
be avoided if we first check wether a cs instruction is likely to succeed
before the instruction gets actually executed.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09 19:47:38 -08:00
Gerald Schaefer 331c465914 [PATCH] s390: fix strnlen_user return value
strnlen_user is supposed to return then length count + 1 if no terminating \0
is found, and it should return 0 on exception.  Found by David Howells
<dhowells@redhat.com>.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08 14:14:01 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper c04030e16d [PATCH] flags parameter for linkat
I'm currently at the POSIX meeting and one thing covered was the
incompatibility of Linux's link() with the POSIX definition.  The name.
Linux does not follow symlinks, POSIX requires it does.

Even if somebody thinks this is a good default behavior we cannot change this
because it would break the ABI.  But the fact remains that some application
might want this behavior.

We have one chance to help implementing this without breaking the behavior.
 For this we could use the new linkat interface which would need a new
flags parameter.  If the new parameter is AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW the new
behavior could be invoked.

I do not want to introduce such a patch now.  But we could add the
parameter now, just don't use it.  The patch below would do this.  Can we
get this late patch applied before the release more or less fixes the
syscall API?

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-24 14:31:39 -08:00
Heiko Carstens ed3d021b82 [PATCH] s390: sys32_fstatat -> sys32_fstatat64
Just rename the compat system call to keep the name consistent with all the
other *64 compat system calls.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17 13:59:27 -08:00
Heiko Carstens 54330456b2 [PATCH] s390: smp initialization speed
The last changes that introduced the additional_cpus command line parameter
also introduced a regression regarding smp initialization speed.  In
smp_setup_cpu_possible_map() cpu_present_map is set to the same value as
cpu_possible_map.  Especially that means that bits in the present map will be
set for cpus that are not present.  This will cause a slow down in the initial
cpu_up() loop in smp_init() since trying to take cpus online that aren't
present takes a while.

Fix this by setting only bits for present cpus in cpu_present_map and set
cpu_present_map to cpu_possible_map in smp_cpus_done().

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17 13:59:27 -08:00
Heiko Carstens 37a3302618 [PATCH] s390: possible_cpus parameter
Introduce possible_cpus command line option.  Hard sets the number of bits set
in cpu_possible_map.  Unlike the additional_cpus parameter this one guarantees
that num_possible_cpus() will stay constant even if the system gets rebooted
and a different number of cpus are present at startup.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17 13:59:27 -08:00
Heiko Carstens 255acee706 [PATCH] s390: additional_cpus parameter
Introduce additional_cpus command line option.  By default no additional cpu
can be attached to the system anymore.  Only the cpus present at IPL time can
be switched on/off.  If it is desired that additional cpus can be attached to
the system the maximum number of additional cpus needs to be specified with
this option.

This change is necessary in order to limit the waste of per_cpu data
structures.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17 13:59:26 -08:00
Heiko Carstens 1fca251f36 [PATCH] s390: fix preempt_count of idle thread with cpu hotplug
Set preempt_count of idle_thread to zero before switching off cpu.  Otherwise
the preempt_count will be wrong if the cpu is switched on again since the
thread will be reused.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17 13:59:26 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 4bbf39c29b [PATCH] Introduce CONFIG_DEFAULT_MIGRATION_COST
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:

  The boot sequence on s390 sometimes takes ages and we spend a very long
  time (up to one or two minutes) in calibrate_migration_costs.  The time
  spent there differs from boot to boot.  Also the calculated costs differ
  a lot.  I've seen differences by up to a factor of 15 (yes, factor not
  percent).  Also I doubt that making these measurements make much sense on
  a completely virtualized architecture where you cannot tell how much cpu
  time you will get anyway.

So introduce the CONFIG_DEFAULT_MIGRATION_COST method for an architecture
to set the scheduler migration costs.  This turns off automatic detection
of migration costs.  Makes sense on virtual platforms, where migration
costs are hard to measure accurately.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-17 13:59:26 -08:00
Heiko Carstens e35a6619e7 [PATCH] s390: fix __delay implementation
Fix __delay implementation.  Called with an argument "1" or "0" it would
loop nearly forever (since (1/2)-1 = 0xffffffff).

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-14 16:09:35 -08:00
Heiko Carstens 19bf9cbf6b [PATCH] s390: fstatat64 support
Add fstatat64 support to s390 in order to follow changes with
commit cff2b76009 .
Also fixes compilation for 31 bit.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-12 10:11:58 -08:00
Heiko Carstens e7684277f6 [PATCH] s390: add support for unshare system call
Add support for unshare system call.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-11 21:41:13 -08:00
Heiko Carstens a386fba251 [PATCH] s390: fix non smp build of kexec
Add missing smp_cpu_not_running define to avoid build warnings in the non smp
case.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-11 21:41:12 -08:00
Heiko Carstens 9733e2407a [PATCH] s390: earlier initialization of cpu_possible_map
Initiliazing of cpu_possible_map was done in smp_prepare_cpus which is way too
late.  Therefore assign a static value to cpu_possible_map, since we don't
have access to max_cpus in setup_arch.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-11 21:41:12 -08:00
Heiko Carstens e6f3601a72 [PATCH] s390: update default configuration
Switch on CONFIG_DEBUG_FS again.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-11 21:41:12 -08:00
Dave Jones 21b4da78c9 [PATCH] Fix s390 build failure.
arch/s390/kernel/compat_signal.c:199: error: conflicting types for 'do_sigaction'
include/linux/sched.h:1115: error: previous declaration of 'do_sigaction' was here

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-10 13:43:59 -08:00
Al Viro 793af24409 [PATCH] s390 misc __user annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-08 01:04:23 -05:00
Al Viro 24954a1418 [PATCH] s390x compat __user annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-08 01:03:26 -05:00
Al Viro aaedd944d4 [PATCH] cmm NULL noise removal, __user annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-07 20:58:15 -05:00
Heiko Carstens cd2d2bf657 [PATCH] s390: fix compat syscall wrapper
Patch 9ad11ab48b changes the type of the first
argument of some compat syscalls from int to unsigned int.  Add these changes
to the s390 compat wrapper as well.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-03 08:32:01 -08:00
Heiko Carstens 54dfe5dd9a [PATCH] s390: Add support for new syscalls/TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
Add support for the new *at, pselect6 and ppoll system calls.  This includes
adding required support for TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:24 -08:00
Heiko Carstens 1ab865c146 [PATCH] s390: New default configuration
New default configuration.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:24 -08:00
Jan Glauber 32f65f2746 [PATCH] s390: monotonic_clock interface
Add monotonic_clock interface, used by the hangcheck-timer.  On s390 this is
the same as sched_clock().

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:24 -08:00
Jan Glauber 9dbafa5368 [PATCH] s390: overflow in sched_clock
The least significant bit of the TOD clock value returned by get_clock
is the 4096th part of a microsecond. To get to nanoseconds the value
needs to be divided by 4096 and multiplied with 1000.

The current method multiplies first and then shifts the value to make the
result as precise as possible.  The disadvantage is that the multiplication
with 1000 will overflow shortly after 52 days.  sched_clock is used by the
scheduler for time stamp deltas, if an overflow occurs between two time stamps
the scheduler will get confused.

With the patch the problem occurs only after approx.  one year, so the chance
to run into this overflow is extremly low.

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:23 -08:00
Heiko Carstens e018ba1fce [PATCH] s390: Remove CVS generated information
- Remove all CVS generated information like e.g. revision IDs from
  drivers/s390 and include/asm-s390 (none present in arch/s390).

- Add newline at end of arch/s390/lib/Makefile to avoid diff message.

Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:23 -08:00
Martin Schwidefsky 1f1c12afe5 [PATCH] s390: cputime misaccounting
finish_arch_switch needs to update the user cpu time as well, not just the
system cpu time.  Otherwise the partial user cpu time of a process that is
stored in the lowcore will be (mis-)accounted to the next process.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:09 -08:00
Martin Schwidefsky 53df751ccd [PATCH] s390: add dummy pm_power_off
Define a dummy pm_power_off pointer to make sys_reboot happy.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:09 -08:00
Martin Schwidefsky 0152fb3760 [PATCH] s390: spinlock fixes
Remove useless spin_retry_counter and fix compilation for UP kernels.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:09 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 68c1191778 [PATCH] s390: fix cpcmd calls on UP
Add missing fourth argument to cpcmd calls under !CONFIG_SMP.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:09 -08:00
Heiko Carstens eb33c190c2 [PATCH] s390: show_task oops
The show_task function walks the kernel stack backchain of processes assuming
that the processes are not running.  Since this assumption is not correct
walking the backchain can lead to an addressing exception and therefore to a
kernel hang.  So prevent the kernel hang (you still get incorrect results)
verity that all read accesses are within the bounds of the kernel stack before
performing them.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:08 -08:00
Jan Glauber 7ffbc9da13 [PATCH] s390: sha256 crypto code fix
Fix processing of messages larger than 2 * SHA256_BLOCK_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:08 -08:00
Jan Glauber fda5e14259 [PATCH] s390: aes crypto code fixes
Call KM[C] only with a multiple of block size.  Check return value of KM[C]
instructions and complain about erros

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:08 -08:00
Jan Glauber b8dc6038ff [PATCH] s390: des crypto code speedup
Provide ECB and CBC encrypt / decrypt functions to crypto API to speed up our
hardware accelerated DES implementation.  This new functions allow the crypto
API to call ECB / CBC directly with large blocks in difference to the old
functions that were calles with algorithm block size (8 bytes for DES).

This is up to factor 10 faster than our old hardware implementation :)

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:08 -08:00
Jan Glauber c1357833bf [PATCH] s390: des crypto code cleanup
Beautify the s390 in-kernel-crypto des code.

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:08 -08:00
Al Viro 30af7120fe [PATCH] s390: task_stack_page()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00
Al Viro c7584fb6b4 [PATCH] s390: task_pt_regs()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00
Randy Dunlap a941564458 [PATCH] capable/capability.h (arch/)
arch: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 7ff92053dd [PATCH] don't include ioctl32.h in drivers
These days ioctl32.h is only used for communication of fs/compat.c and
fs/compat_ioctl.c and doesn't contain anything of interest to drivers.

Remove inclusion in various drivers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:34 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig e6a6d2efcb [PATCH] sanitize building of fs/compat_ioctl.c
Now that all these entries in the arch ioctl32.c files are gone [1], we can
build fs/compat_ioctl.c as a normal object and kill tons of cruft.  We need a
special do_ioctl32_pointer handler for s390 so the compat_ptr call is done.
This is not needed but harmless on all other architectures.  Also remove some
superflous includes in fs/compat_ioctl.c

Tested on ppc64.

[1] parisc still had it's PPP handler left, which is not fully correct
    for ppp and besides that ppp uses the generic SIOCPRIV ioctl so it'd
    kick in for all netdevice users.  We can introduce a proper handler
    in one of the next patch series by adding a compat_ioctl method to
    struct net_device but for now let's just kill it - parisc doesn't
    compile in mainline anyway and I don't want this to block this
    patchset.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:33 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 8262037f40 [PATCH] add ->compat_ioctl to dasd
Add a compat_ioctl method to the dasd driver so the last entries in
arch/s390/kernel/compat_ioctl.c can go away.  Unlike the previous attempt this
one does not replace the ioctl method with an unlocked_ioctl method so that
the ioctl_by_bdev calls in s390 partition code continue to work.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:32 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 3a0f69d59b [PATCH] common compat_sys_timer_create
The comment in compat.c is wrong, every architecture provides a
get_compat_sigevent() for the IPC compat code already.

This basically moves the x86_64 version to common code and removes all the
others.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:32 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig f042e0f80b [PATCH] ->compat_ioctl for 390 tape_char
The only own ioctl, TAPE390_DISPLAY, is compat_clean, everything else is
routed through common translation code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:31 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 51a990588a [PATCH] remove TIOCGSERIAL/TIOCSSERIAL compat_ioctl entries for 390
These ioctls are definitely not compat clean, but we already have a proper
handler in common code, over-riding it in architecture code is
counter-productive.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:31 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 0f75e00c9a [PATCH] switch fs3270 to ->compat_ioctl
Again easy because all ioctls are compat clean.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:31 -08:00
Vivek Goyal cc57165874 [PATCH] kdump: dynamic per cpu allocation of memory for saving cpu registers
- In case of system crash, current state of cpu registers is saved in memory
  in elf note format.  So far memory for storing elf notes was being allocated
  statically for NR_CPUS.

- This patch introduces dynamic allocation of memory for storing elf notes.
  It uses alloc_percpu() interface.  This should lead to better memory usage.

- Introduced based on Andi Kleen's and Eric W. Biederman's suggestions.

- This patch also moves memory allocation for elf notes from architecture
  dependent portion to architecture independent portion.  Now crash_notes is
  architecture independent.  The whole idea is that size of memory to be
  allocated per cpu (MAX_NOTE_BYTES) can be architecture dependent and
  allocation of this memory can be architecture independent.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:26 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org df2e71fb91 [PATCH] dump_thread() cleanup
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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

- create one common dump_thread() prototype in kernel.h

- dump_thread() is only used in fs/binfmt_aout.c and can therefore be
  removed on all architectures where CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT is not
  available

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:25 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 2308acca65 [PATCH] "tiny-make-id16-support-optional" fixes
It seems the "make UID16 support optional" patch was checked when it
edited the -tiny tree some time ago, but it wasn't checked whether it
still matches the current situation when it was submitted for inclusion
in -mm. This patch fixes the following bugs:
- ARCH_S390X does no longer exist, nowadays this has to be expressed
  through (S390 && 64BIT)
- in five architecture specific Kconfig files the UID16 options
  weren't removed

Additionally, it changes the fragile negative dependencies of UID16 to
positive dependencies (new architectures are more likely to not require
UID16 support).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:23 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 6b9c7ed848 [PATCH] use ptrace_get_task_struct in various places
The ptrace_get_task_struct() helper that I added as part of the ptrace
consolidation is useful in variety of places that currently opencode it.
Switch them to the common helpers.

Add a ptrace_traceme() helper that needs to be explicitly called, and simplify
the ptrace_get_task_struct() interface.  We don't need the request argument
now, and we return the task_struct directly, using ERR_PTR() for error
returns.  It's a bit more code in the callers, but we have two sane routines
that do one thing well now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:51 -08:00
Martin Schwidefsky 347a8dc3b8 [PATCH] s390: cleanup Kconfig
Sanitize some s390 Kconfig options.  We have ARCH_S390, ARCH_S390X,
ARCH_S390_31, 64BIT, S390_SUPPORT and COMPAT.  Replace these 6 options by
S390, 64BIT and COMPAT.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:53 -08:00
Frank Pavlic 8129ee1642 [PATCH] s390: qdio V=V pass-through
New feature V=V qdio pass-through.

QDIO and HiperSockets processing in z/VM V=V guest environments (as well as
V=R with z/VM running in LPAR mode) requires shadowing of all QDIO
architecture queue elements.  Especially the shadowing of SBALs and SLSBs
structures in the hypervisor, and the need to issue SIGA SYNC operations to
observe state changes, eventually causes significant CPU processing overhead
in the hypervisor.

The QDIO pass-through support for V=V guests avoids the shadowing of SBALs and
SLSBs.  This significantly reduces the hypervisor overhead for QDIO based I/O.

Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:51 -08:00