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<title>arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0</title>
<updated>2009-10-22T22:11:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-20T10:28:22+00:00</published>
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commit 51b563fc93c8cb5bff1d67a0a71c374e4a4ea049 upstream.

Albin Tonnerre &lt;albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com&gt; reported:

    Bash 4 filters out variables which contain a dot in them.
    This happends to be the case of CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds.
    This is rather unfortunate, as it now causes
    build failures when using SHELL=/bin/bash to compile,
    or when bash happens to be used by make (eg when it's /bin/sh)

Remove the common definition of CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds by
pushing relevant stuff to either Makefile.build or the
arch specific kernel/Makefile where we build the linker script.

This is also nice cleanup as we move the information out where
it is used.

Notes for the different architectures touched:

arm - we use an already exported symbol
cris - we use a config symbol aleady available
       [Not build tested]
mips - the jiffies complexity has moved to vmlinux.lds.S where we need it.
       Added a few variables to CPPFLAGS - they are only used by
       the linker script.
       [Not build tested]
powerpc - removed assignment that is not needed
          [not build tested]
sparc - simplified it using $(BITS)
um - introduced a few new exported variables to deal with this
xtensa - added options to CPP invocation
         [not build tested]

Cc: Albin Tonnerre &lt;albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 51b563fc93c8cb5bff1d67a0a71c374e4a4ea049 upstream.

Albin Tonnerre &lt;albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com&gt; reported:

    Bash 4 filters out variables which contain a dot in them.
    This happends to be the case of CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds.
    This is rather unfortunate, as it now causes
    build failures when using SHELL=/bin/bash to compile,
    or when bash happens to be used by make (eg when it's /bin/sh)

Remove the common definition of CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds by
pushing relevant stuff to either Makefile.build or the
arch specific kernel/Makefile where we build the linker script.

This is also nice cleanup as we move the information out where
it is used.

Notes for the different architectures touched:

arm - we use an already exported symbol
cris - we use a config symbol aleady available
       [Not build tested]
mips - the jiffies complexity has moved to vmlinux.lds.S where we need it.
       Added a few variables to CPPFLAGS - they are only used by
       the linker script.
       [Not build tested]
powerpc - removed assignment that is not needed
          [not build tested]
sparc - simplified it using $(BITS)
um - introduced a few new exported variables to deal with this
xtensa - added options to CPP invocation
         [not build tested]

Cc: Albin Tonnerre &lt;albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Remove multiple KERN_ prefixes from printk formats</title>
<updated>2009-07-08T17:30:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-06T20:05:40+00:00</published>
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Commit 5fd29d6ccbc98884569d6f3105aeca70858b3e0f ("printk: clean up
handling of log-levels and newlines") changed printk semantics.  printk
lines with multiple KERN_&lt;level&gt; prefixes are no longer emitted as
before the patch.

&lt;level&gt; is now included in the output on each additional use.

Remove all uses of multiple KERN_&lt;level&gt;s in formats.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 5fd29d6ccbc98884569d6f3105aeca70858b3e0f ("printk: clean up
handling of log-levels and newlines") changed printk semantics.  printk
lines with multiple KERN_&lt;level&gt; prefixes are no longer emitted as
before the patch.

&lt;level&gt; is now included in the output on each additional use.

Remove all uses of multiple KERN_&lt;level&gt;s in formats.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xtensa: allow variant to initialize own irq chips</title>
<updated>2009-06-22T09:36:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Glöckner</name>
<email>dg@emlix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-05T15:03:21+00:00</published>
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There was already a PLATFORM_NR_IRQS define, which is now accompanied
by a VARIANT_NR_IRQS. To be able to initialize these interrupts,
init_IRQ now calls a variant specific hook.

Changes compared to v1:
- adapted to new CONFIG_VARIANT_IRQ_EXT
- removed definition and call of platform_init_IRQ as there already
  is a platform_init_irq defined in asm/platform.h with a weak default
  in kernel/platform.c
- renamed variant_init_IRQ to variant_init_irq

Note that I could not find the call site of platform_init_irq although
it is stated in platform.h that it is called from init_IRQ.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Glöckner &lt;dg@emlix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
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There was already a PLATFORM_NR_IRQS define, which is now accompanied
by a VARIANT_NR_IRQS. To be able to initialize these interrupts,
init_IRQ now calls a variant specific hook.

Changes compared to v1:
- adapted to new CONFIG_VARIANT_IRQ_EXT
- removed definition and call of platform_init_IRQ as there already
  is a platform_init_irq defined in asm/platform.h with a weak default
  in kernel/platform.c
- renamed variant_init_IRQ to variant_init_irq

Note that I could not find the call site of platform_init_irq although
it is stated in platform.h that it is called from init_IRQ.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Glöckner &lt;dg@emlix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ptrace: remove PT_DTRACE from avr32, mn10300, parisc, s390, sh, xtensa</title>
<updated>2009-06-18T20:03:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-17T23:27:25+00:00</published>
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avr32, mn10300, parisc, s390, sh, xtensa:

They never set PT_DTRACE, but clear it after do_execve().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Grant Grundler &lt;grundler@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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avr32, mn10300, parisc, s390, sh, xtensa:

They never set PT_DTRACE, but clear it after do_execve().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Grant Grundler &lt;grundler@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: consolidate init_mm definition</title>
<updated>2009-06-17T02:47:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-16T22:31:18+00:00</published>
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* create mm/init-mm.c, move init_mm there
* remove INIT_MM, initialize init_mm with C99 initializer
* unexport init_mm on all arches:

  init_mm is already unexported on x86.

  One strange place is some OMAP driver (drivers/video/omap/) which
  won't build modular, but it's already wants get_vm_area() export.
  Somebody should look there.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing #includes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier.adi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Americo Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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* create mm/init-mm.c, move init_mm there
* remove INIT_MM, initialize init_mm with C99 initializer
* unexport init_mm on all arches:

  init_mm is already unexported on x86.

  One strange place is some OMAP driver (drivers/video/omap/) which
  won't build modular, but it's already wants get_vm_area() export.
  Somebody should look there.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing #includes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier.adi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Americo Wang &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: cleanup FIXME comments about trimming exception table entries.</title>
<updated>2009-06-12T12:17:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-13T03:47:04+00:00</published>
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Everyone cut and paste this comment from my original one.  We now do
it generically, so cut the comments.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Amerigo Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
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Everyone cut and paste this comment from my original one.  We now do
it generically, so cut the comments.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Amerigo Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xtensa: Fix linker script to include .literal sections</title>
<updated>2009-05-12T06:40:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Zankel</name>
<email>chris@zankel.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-21T07:34:15+00:00</published>
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Fix resembles implementation from Marc Gauthier and Piet Denaly:

In the Xtensa architecture, assembly generates literals which must always
precede the code (the L32R instruction that loads them only uses negative
PC-relative offsets).  For any *.text section, literals are placed in a
corresponding *.literal section.  The linker script (vmlinux.lds) must
place these in the correct order.  It must also combine them, when the
*.text section can be larger than L32R's 256 kB range.

For example, this doesn't work:  *(.literal) *(.text) because L32R
instructions at the end of .text can't reach the literals.

The linker can solve this if they are combined in parentheses, like this:
       *(.literal .text)
because it is now allowed mix literals in .text to bring them in range.

None of this is done by standard vmlinux.lds.h macros such as TEXT_TEXT
and INIT_TEXT.  To avoid replicating the logic of that header file, we
instead post-process the generated linker script to convert *(xxx.text)
to *(xxx.literal xxx.text) for the following text sections:
       .text .ref.text .*init.text .*exit.text .text.*
using a sed script.  To do this we must override the default rule for
vmlinux.lds (see scripts/Makefile.build and the top-level Makefile)
to insert this extra step.

Signed-off-by: Marc Gauthier &lt;marc@tensilica.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pete Delaney &lt;piet@tensilica.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
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Fix resembles implementation from Marc Gauthier and Piet Denaly:

In the Xtensa architecture, assembly generates literals which must always
precede the code (the L32R instruction that loads them only uses negative
PC-relative offsets).  For any *.text section, literals are placed in a
corresponding *.literal section.  The linker script (vmlinux.lds) must
place these in the correct order.  It must also combine them, when the
*.text section can be larger than L32R's 256 kB range.

For example, this doesn't work:  *(.literal) *(.text) because L32R
instructions at the end of .text can't reach the literals.

The linker can solve this if they are combined in parentheses, like this:
       *(.literal .text)
because it is now allowed mix literals in .text to bring them in range.

None of this is done by standard vmlinux.lds.h macros such as TEXT_TEXT
and INIT_TEXT.  To avoid replicating the logic of that header file, we
instead post-process the generated linker script to convert *(xxx.text)
to *(xxx.literal xxx.text) for the following text sections:
       .text .ref.text .*init.text .*exit.text .text.*
using a sed script.  To do this we must override the default rule for
vmlinux.lds (see scripts/Makefile.build and the top-level Makefile)
to insert this extra step.

Signed-off-by: Marc Gauthier &lt;marc@tensilica.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pete Delaney &lt;piet@tensilica.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xtensa: always use correct stack pointer for stack traces</title>
<updated>2009-05-12T04:59:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>jw@emlix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-11T13:43:33+00:00</published>
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Commit '28a0ce7 xtensa: use correct stack pointer for stack traces'
changed the stack tracer from always reading the stack pointer
register to always using the saved value in the task descriptor.

The author was too dense to consider the fact that the saved stack
value is stale for a running process und thus unusable for 'current'.

What we do now is to use the stack pointer register (a1) for when the
task is unknown - we can't help it then - or when the task is
'current'.  For everything else use the saved stack pointer value
contained in the task descriptor.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;jw@emlix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
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Commit '28a0ce7 xtensa: use correct stack pointer for stack traces'
changed the stack tracer from always reading the stack pointer
register to always using the saved value in the task descriptor.

The author was too dense to consider the fact that the saved stack
value is stale for a running process und thus unusable for 'current'.

What we do now is to use the stack pointer register (a1) for when the
task is unknown - we can't help it then - or when the task is
'current'.  For everything else use the saved stack pointer value
contained in the task descriptor.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;jw@emlix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xtensa: convert to use __HEAD and HEAD_TEXT macros.</title>
<updated>2009-04-26T16:20:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Abbott</name>
<email>tabbott@MIT.EDU</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-26T02:10:57+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into merge</title>
<updated>2009-04-03T09:29:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Zankel</name>
<email>chris@zankel.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-03T09:29:05+00:00</published>
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