linux-stable.git/arch/frv/kernel/process.c, branch linux-3.4.y

frv: Use core allocator for task_struct

2013-08-20T15:26:28+00:00

commit c6ae063aaf3786b9db7f19a90bf4ed8aaebb7f90 upstream.

There is no point having a copy of the core allocator.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085033.967140188@linutronix.de
Cc: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

frv: Use correct size for task_struct allocation

2013-08-20T15:26:28+00:00

commit cce4517f33384c3794c759e206cc8e1bb6df146b upstream.

alloc_task_struct_node() allocates THREAD_SIZE and maintains some
weird refcount in the allocated memory. This never blew up as
task_struct size on 32bit machines was always less than THREAD_SIZE

Allocate just sizeof(struct task_struct) and get rid of the magic
refcounting.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085033.898475542@linutronix.de
Cc: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

frv: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

2012-10-12T20:38:54+00:00

commit 41d8fe5bb3cf91ce2716ac8f43e4b40d802a99c8 upstream.

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in the Frv's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: David Howells 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Disintegrate asm/system.h for FRV

2012-03-28T17:30:02+00:00

Disintegrate asm/system.h for FRV.

Signed-off-by: David Howells

sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()

2012-03-01T09:28:03+00:00

Coccinelle based conversion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-24swm5zut3h9c4a6s46x8rws@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

frv, exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)

2011-07-26T23:49:41+00:00

The address limit is already set in flush_old_exec() so those calls to
set_fs(USER_DS) are redundant.

Also removed the dead code in flush_thread().

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: NUMA aware alloc_task_struct_node()

2011-03-23T00:44:01+00:00

All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory
from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct.

This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_cpu(), adding a 'cpu' parameter
to parameters already used by kthread_create().

This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its
memory node if available.

Users of this new function are : ksoftirqd, kworker, migration, pktgend...

This patch:

Add a node parameter to alloc_task_struct(), and change its name to
alloc_task_struct_node()

This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

BKL: remove extraneous #include

2010-11-17T16:59:32+00:00

The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.

Remove this too as a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer

2010-08-18T01:07:43+00:00

Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:

arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to.  This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel().  A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().

do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.

Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.

This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being const

2010-08-13T23:53:13+00:00

Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't.  The list includes:

 (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
     syscalls and some mount syscalls.

 (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.

 (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds