linux-stable.git/arch/parisc/include/asm, branch v3.0

Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c

2011-06-27T21:13:09+00:00

commit 21a3c96 uses node_start/end_pfn(nid) for detection start/end
of nodes. But, it's not defined in linux/mmzone.h but defined in
/arch/???/include/mmzone.h which is included only under
CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=y.

Then, we see
  mm/page_cgroup.c: In function 'page_cgroup_init':
  mm/page_cgroup.c:308: error: implicit declaration of function 'node_start_pfn'
  mm/page_cgroup.c:309: error: implicit declaration of function 'node_end_pfn'

So, fixiing page_cgroup.c is an idea...

But node_start_pfn()/node_end_pfn() is a very generic macro and
should be implemented in the same manner for all archs.
(m32r has different implementation...)

This patch removes definitions of node_start/end_pfn() in each archs
and defines a unified one in linux/mmzone.h. It's not under
CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES, now.

A result of macro expansion is here (mm/page_cgroup.c)

for !NUMA
 start_pfn = ((&contig_page_data)->node_start_pfn);
  end_pfn = ({ pg_data_t *__pgdat = (&contig_page_data); __pgdat->node_start_pfn + __pgdat->node_spanned_pages;});

for NUMA (x86-64)
  start_pfn = ((node_data[nid])->node_start_pfn);
  end_pfn = ({ pg_data_t *__pgdat = (node_data[nid]); __pgdat->node_start_pfn + __pgdat->node_spanned_pages;});

Changelog:
 - fixed to avoid using "nid" twice in node_end_pfn() macro.

Reported-and-acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Reported-and-tested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ns: Wire up the setns system call

2011-05-28T17:48:39+00:00

32bit and 64bit on x86 are tested and working.  The rest I have looked
at closely and I can't find any problems.

setns is an easy system call to wire up.  It just takes two ints so I
don't expect any weird architecture porting problems.

While doing this I have noticed that we have some architectures that are
very slow to get new system calls.  cris seems to be the slowest where
the last system calls wired up were preadv and pwritev.  avr32 is weird
in that recvmmsg was wired up but never declared in unistd.h.  frv is
behind with perf_event_open being the last syscall wired up.  On h8300
the last system call wired up was epoll_wait.  On m32r the last system
call wired up was fallocate.  mn10300 has recvmmsg as the last system
call wired up.  The rest seem to at least have syncfs wired up which was
new in the 2.6.39.

v2: Most of the architecture support added by Daniel Lezcano 
v3: ported to v2.6.36-rc4 by: Eric W. Biederman 
v4: Moved wiring up of the system call to another patch
v5: ported to v2.6.39-rc6
v6: rebased onto parisc-next and net-next to avoid syscall  conflicts.
v7: ported to Linus's latest post 2.6.39 tree.

>  arch/blackfin/include/asm/unistd.h     |    3 ++-
>  arch/blackfin/mach-common/entry.S      |    1 +
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 

Oh - ia64 wiring looks good.
Acked-by: Tony Luck 

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove unused PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY constant

2011-05-25T15:39:43+00:00

This constant hasn't been used since before the git era (2.6.12) and thus
can be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'flushing' into for-linus

2011-05-22T07:04:55+00:00

[PARISC] wire up syncfs syscall

2011-04-15T18:56:17+00:00

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[PARISC] wire up the fhandle syscalls

2011-04-15T18:55:49+00:00

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[PARISC] wire up clock_adjtime syscall

2011-04-15T18:55:25+00:00

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[PARISC] wire up fanotify syscalls

2011-04-15T18:54:39+00:00

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[PARISC] prevent speculative re-read on cache flush

2011-04-15T17:55:56+00:00

According to Appendix F, the TLB is the primary arbiter of speculation.
Thus, if a page has a TLB entry, it may be speculatively read into the
cache.  On linux, this can cause us incoherencies because if we're about
to do a disk read, we call get_user_pages() to do the flush/invalidate
in user space, but we still potentially have the user TLB entries, and
the cache could speculate the lines back into userspace (thus causing
stale data to be used).  This is fixed by purging the TLB entries before
we flush through the tmpalias space.  Now, the only way the line could
be re-speculated is if the user actually tries to touch it (which is not
allowed).

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

[PARISC] only make executable areas executable

2011-04-15T17:55:18+00:00

Currently parisc has the whole kernel marked as RWX, meaning any
kernel page at all is eligible to be executed.  This can cause a
theoretical problem on systems with combined I/D TLB because the act
of referencing a page causes a TLB insertion with an executable bit.
This TLB entry may be used by the CPU as the basis for speculating the
page into the I-Cache.  If this speculated page is subsequently used
for a user process, there is the possibility we will get a stale
I-cache line picked up as the binary executes.

As a point of good practise, only mark actual kernel text pages as
executable.  The same has to be done for init_text pages, but they're
converted to data pages (and the I-Cache flushed) when the init memory
is released.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley