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<title>Add compat handler for PTRACE_GETSIGINFO</title>
<updated>2008-08-06T16:03:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Schwab</name>
<email>schwab@suse.de</email>
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<published>2008-04-19T16:25:13+00:00</published>
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commit e4cc58944c1e2ce41e3079d4eb60c95e7ce04b2b upstream

Current versions of gdb require a working implementation of
PTRACE_GETSIGINFO for proper watchpoint support.  Since struct siginfo
contains pointers it must be converted when passed to a 32-bit debugger.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit e4cc58944c1e2ce41e3079d4eb60c95e7ce04b2b upstream

Current versions of gdb require a working implementation of
PTRACE_GETSIGINFO for proper watchpoint support.  Since struct siginfo
contains pointers it must be converted when passed to a 32-bit debugger.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>cpufreq acpi: only call _PPC after cpufreq ACPI init funcs got called already</title>
<updated>2008-08-01T19:43:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Renninger</name>
<email>trenn@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-30T18:20:10+00:00</published>
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commit a1531acd43310a7e4571d52e8846640667f4c74b upstream

Ingo Molnar provided a fix to not call _PPC at processor driver
initialization time in "[PATCH] ACPI: fix cpufreq regression" (git
commit e4233dec749a3519069d9390561b5636a75c7579)

But it can still happen that _PPC is called at processor driver
initialization time.

This patch should make sure that this is not possible anymore.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit a1531acd43310a7e4571d52e8846640667f4c74b upstream

Ingo Molnar provided a fix to not call _PPC at processor driver
initialization time in "[PATCH] ACPI: fix cpufreq regression" (git
commit e4233dec749a3519069d9390561b5636a75c7579)

But it can still happen that _PPC is called at processor driver
initialization time.

This patch should make sure that this is not possible anymore.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@codemonkey.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>KVM: MMU: nuke shadowed pgtable pages and ptes on memslot destruction</title>
<updated>2008-08-01T19:43:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcelo Tosatti</name>
<email>mtosatti@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-23T08:43:42+00:00</published>
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Original-Commit-Hash: 3cc312f03e06a8fa39ecb4cc0189efc2bd888899

Flush the shadow mmu before removing regions to avoid stale entries.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@qumranet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Original-Commit-Hash: 3cc312f03e06a8fa39ecb4cc0189efc2bd888899

Flush the shadow mmu before removing regions to avoid stale entries.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@qumranet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Add missing reference to coherent_dma_mask</title>
<updated>2008-07-09T04:06:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Bordug</name>
<email>vitb@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-09T03:13:38+00:00</published>
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There is dma_mask in of_device upon of_platform_device_create()
but we don't actually set coherent_dma_mask. This may cause weird
behavior of USB subsystem using of_device USB host drivers.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug &lt;vitb@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There is dma_mask in of_device upon of_platform_device_create()
but we don't actually set coherent_dma_mask. This may cause weird
behavior of USB subsystem using of_device USB host drivers.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug &lt;vitb@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix unterminated of_device_id array in legacy_serial.c</title>
<updated>2008-07-07T15:53:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-07T06:39:50+00:00</published>
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A recent patch to legacy_serial.c factored out some code by
using the of_match_node() facility to match a node against
an array of possible matches. However, the patch didn't properly
terminate the array causing potential crashes in cases where no
match is found. In addition, the name of the array was poorly
chosen for a static symbol making debugging harder.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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A recent patch to legacy_serial.c factored out some code by
using the of_match_node() facility to match a node against
an array of possible matches. However, the patch didn't properly
terminate the array causing potential crashes in cases where no
match is found. In addition, the name of the array was poorly
chosen for a static symbol making debugging harder.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-2.6.26' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6-mpc52xx into merge</title>
<updated>2008-07-03T00:05:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-03T00:05:59+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/mpc5200: Fix lite5200b suspend/resume</title>
<updated>2008-07-01T22:08:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Yamin</name>
<email>plasm@roo.me.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-17T08:33:14+00:00</published>
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Suspend/resume ("echo mem &gt; /sys/power/state") does not work with
vanilla kernels -- the system does not suspend correctly and just
hangs. This patch fixes this so suspend/resume works:

1) of_iomap does not map the whole 0xC000 of the MPC5200 immr so
saving registers does not work.
2) PCI registers need to be saved and restored.

Signed-off-by: Tim Yamin &lt;plasm@roo.me.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
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Suspend/resume ("echo mem &gt; /sys/power/state") does not work with
vanilla kernels -- the system does not suspend correctly and just
hangs. This patch fixes this so suspend/resume works:

1) of_iomap does not map the whole 0xC000 of the MPC5200 immr so
saving registers does not work.
2) PCI registers need to be saved and restored.

Signed-off-by: Tim Yamin &lt;plasm@roo.me.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/legacy_serial: Bail if reg-offset/shift properties are present</title>
<updated>2008-07-01T21:12:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Linn</name>
<email>john.linn@xilinx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-01T17:52:41+00:00</published>
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The legacy serial driver does not work with an 8250 type UART that is
described in the device tree with the reg-offset and reg-shift
properties.  This change makes legacy_serial ignore these devices.

Signed-off-by: John Linn &lt;john.linn@xilinx.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
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The legacy serial driver does not work with an 8250 type UART that is
described in the device tree with the reg-offset and reg-shift
properties.  This change makes legacy_serial ignore these devices.

Signed-off-by: John Linn &lt;john.linn@xilinx.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/bootwrapper: update for initrd with simpleImage</title>
<updated>2008-07-01T20:17:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Linn</name>
<email>john.linn@xilinx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-01T20:17:18+00:00</published>
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This change to the makefile corrects the build of a simpleImage with initrd.

Signed-off-by: John Linn &lt;john.linn@xilinx&gt;
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
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This change to the makefile corrects the build of a simpleImage with initrd.

Signed-off-by: John Linn &lt;john.linn@xilinx&gt;
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Reinstate ZERO_PAGE optimization in 'get_user_pages()' and fix XIP</title>
<updated>2008-06-20T18:18:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-20T18:18:25+00:00</published>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki and Oleg Nesterov point out that since the commit
557ed1fa2620dc119adb86b34c614e152a629a80 ("remove ZERO_PAGE") removed
the ZERO_PAGE from the VM mappings, any users of get_user_pages() will
generally now populate the VM with real empty pages needlessly.

We used to get the ZERO_PAGE when we did the "handle_mm_fault()", but
since fault handling no longer uses ZERO_PAGE for new anonymous pages,
we now need to handle that special case in follow_page() instead.

In particular, the removal of ZERO_PAGE effectively removed the core
file writing optimization where we would skip writing pages that had not
been populated at all, and increased memory pressure a lot by allocating
all those useless newly zeroed pages.

This reinstates the optimization by making the unmapped PTE case the
same as for a non-existent page table, which already did this correctly.

While at it, this also fixes the XIP case for follow_page(), where the
caller could not differentiate between the case of a page that simply
could not be used (because it had no "struct page" associated with it)
and a page that just wasn't mapped.

We do that by simply returning an error pointer for pages that could not
be turned into a "struct page *".  The error is arbitrarily picked to be
EFAULT, since that was what get_user_pages() already used for the
equivalent IO-mapped page case.

[ Also removed an impossible test for pte_offset_map_lock() failing:
  that's not how that function works ]

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@tv-sign.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki and Oleg Nesterov point out that since the commit
557ed1fa2620dc119adb86b34c614e152a629a80 ("remove ZERO_PAGE") removed
the ZERO_PAGE from the VM mappings, any users of get_user_pages() will
generally now populate the VM with real empty pages needlessly.

We used to get the ZERO_PAGE when we did the "handle_mm_fault()", but
since fault handling no longer uses ZERO_PAGE for new anonymous pages,
we now need to handle that special case in follow_page() instead.

In particular, the removal of ZERO_PAGE effectively removed the core
file writing optimization where we would skip writing pages that had not
been populated at all, and increased memory pressure a lot by allocating
all those useless newly zeroed pages.

This reinstates the optimization by making the unmapped PTE case the
same as for a non-existent page table, which already did this correctly.

While at it, this also fixes the XIP case for follow_page(), where the
caller could not differentiate between the case of a page that simply
could not be used (because it had no "struct page" associated with it)
and a page that just wasn't mapped.

We do that by simply returning an error pointer for pages that could not
be turned into a "struct page *".  The error is arbitrarily picked to be
EFAULT, since that was what get_user_pages() already used for the
equivalent IO-mapped page case.

[ Also removed an impossible test for pte_offset_map_lock() failing:
  that's not how that function works ]

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@tv-sign.ru&gt;
Acked-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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