linux-stable.git/arch/s390/kernel/vdso.c, branch linux-4.2.y

s390: remove 31 bit support

2015-03-25T10:49:33+00:00

Remove the 31 bit support in order to reduce maintenance cost and
effectively remove dead code. Since a couple of years there is no
distribution left that comes with a 31 bit kernel.

The 31 bit kernel also has been broken since more than a year before
anybody noticed. In addition I added a removal warning to the kernel
shown at ipl for 5 minutes: a960062e5826 ("s390: add 31 bit warning
message") which let everybody know about the plan to remove 31 bit
code. We didn't get any response.

Given that the last 31 bit only machine was introduced in 1999 let's
remove the code.
Anybody with 31 bit user space code can still use the compat mode.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

arm64,ia64,ppc,s390,sh,tile,um,x86,mm: remove default gate area

2014-08-08T22:57:27+00:00

The core mm code will provide a default gate area based on
FIXADDR_USER_START and FIXADDR_USER_END if
!defined(__HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA) && defined(AT_SYSINFO_EHDR).

This default is only useful for ia64.  arm64, ppc, s390, sh, tile, 64-bit
UML, and x86_32 have their own code just to disable it.  arm, 32-bit UML,
and x86_64 have gate areas, but they have their own implementations.

This gets rid of the default and moves the code into ia64.

This should save some code on architectures without a gate area: it's now
possible to inline the gate_area functions in the default case.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Acked-by: Nathan Lynch 
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt  [in principle]
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger  [for um]
Acked-by: Will Deacon  [for arm64]
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Nathan Lynch 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

s390/vdso: fix access-list entry initialization

2013-12-02T14:31:09+00:00

The access-list entry is supposed to have the fetch-only bit set, however
a reserved bit got set instead.
Userspace isn't able to write to the page anyway since the accessed page
has the read-only bit set. So this saves us only for bad surprises in the
future if the reserved bit gets used.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/uaccess: always run the kernel in home space

2013-10-24T15:16:57+00:00

Simplify the uaccess code by removing the user_mode=home option.
The kernel will now always run in the home space mode.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/mm: cleanup page table definitions

2013-08-22T10:20:06+00:00

Improve the encoding of the different pte types and the naming of the
page, segment table and region table bits. Due to the different pte
encoding the hugetlbfs primitives need to be adapted as well. To improve
compatability with common code make the huge ptes use the encoding of
normal ptes. The conversion between the pte and pmd encoding for a huge
pte is done with set_huge_pte_at and huge_ptep_get.
Overall the code is now easier to understand.

Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390: replace remaining strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul()

2013-08-22T10:20:00+00:00

Replace the last two strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul().

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/mm: rename addressing_mode to s390_user_mode

2012-09-26T13:45:05+00:00

Renaming the globally visible variable "user_mode" to "addressing_mode" in
order to fix a name clash was not a good idea. (Commit 37fe1d73 "s390/mm:
rename user_mode variable to addressing_mode")
Looking at the code after a couple of weeks one thinks: addressing mode of
what?
So rename the variable again. This time to s390_user_mode. Which hopefully
makes more sense.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/mm: rename user_mode variable to addressing_mode

2012-07-30T09:03:11+00:00

Fix name clash with user_mode() define which is also used in common code.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system

2012-03-28T22:58:21+00:00

Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
 "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
  separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
  dependencies.

  I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
  and made sure that they don't break.

  The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
  dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
  optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().

  This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
  asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.

  The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h.  It holds a number of
  low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
  memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
  aren't used in many places (eg.  switch_to()).

  These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:

    (1) asm/barrier.h

        Move memory barriers here.  This already done for MIPS and Alpha.

    (2) asm/switch_to.h

        Move switch_to() and related stuff here.

    (3) asm/exec.h

        Move arch_align_stack() here.  Other process execution related bits
        could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.

    (4) asm/cmpxchg.h

        Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
        frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().

    (5) asm/bug.h

        Move die() and related bits.

    (6) asm/auxvec.h

        Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.

  Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."

Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that.  We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..

* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
  Delete all instances of asm/system.h
  Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
  Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
  Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
  Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
  Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
  Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
  Create asm-generic/barrier.h
  Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
  ...

Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390

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

Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org