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<title>xtensa: mm/cache: add missing EXPORT_SYMBOLs</title>
<updated>2017-11-11T13:34:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-01T18:15:15+00:00</published>
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commit bc652eb6a0d5cffaea7dc8e8ad488aab2a1bf1ed upstream.

Functions clear_user_highpage, copy_user_highpage, flush_dcache_page,
local_flush_cache_range and local_flush_cache_page may be used from
modules. Export them.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop exports of {clear,copy}_user_highpage()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit bc652eb6a0d5cffaea7dc8e8ad488aab2a1bf1ed upstream.

Functions clear_user_highpage, copy_user_highpage, flush_dcache_page,
local_flush_cache_range and local_flush_cache_page may be used from
modules. Export them.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop exports of {clear,copy}_user_highpage()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xtensa: don't limit csum_partial export by CONFIG_NET</title>
<updated>2017-11-11T13:34:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-01T18:02:46+00:00</published>
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commit 7f81e55c737a8fa82c71f290945d729a4902f8d2 upstream.

csum_partial and csum_partial_copy_generic are defined unconditionally
and are available even when CONFIG_NET is disabled. They are used not
only by the network drivers, but also by scsi and media.
Don't limit these functions export by CONFIG_NET.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 7f81e55c737a8fa82c71f290945d729a4902f8d2 upstream.

csum_partial and csum_partial_copy_generic are defined unconditionally
and are available even when CONFIG_NET is disabled. They are used not
only by the network drivers, but also by scsi and media.
Don't limit these functions export by CONFIG_NET.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xtensa: add missing symbol exports</title>
<updated>2017-11-11T13:34:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-17T01:44:56+00:00</published>
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commit d3738f407c8ced4fd17dccf6cce729023c735c73 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop exports of some functions that aren't defined here]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit d3738f407c8ced4fd17dccf6cce729023c735c73 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop exports of some functions that aren't defined here]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xtensa: fix cache aliasing handling code for WT cache</title>
<updated>2017-11-11T13:34:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-29T00:42:59+00:00</published>
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commit 6d0f581d1768d3eaba15776e7dd1fdfec10cfe36 upstream.

Currently building kernel for xtensa core with aliasing WT cache fails
with the following messages:

  mm/memory.c:2152: undefined reference to `flush_dcache_page'
  mm/memory.c:2332: undefined reference to `local_flush_cache_page'
  mm/memory.c:1919: undefined reference to `local_flush_cache_range'
  mm/memory.c:4179: undefined reference to `copy_to_user_page'
  mm/memory.c:4183: undefined reference to `copy_from_user_page'

This happens because implementation of these functions is only compiled
when data cache is WB, which looks wrong: even when data cache doesn't
need flushing it still needs invalidation. The functions like
__flush_[invalidate_]dcache_* are correctly defined for both WB and WT
caches (and even if they weren't that'd still be ok, just slower).

Fix this by providing the same implementation of the above functions for
both WB and WT cache.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 6d0f581d1768d3eaba15776e7dd1fdfec10cfe36 upstream.

Currently building kernel for xtensa core with aliasing WT cache fails
with the following messages:

  mm/memory.c:2152: undefined reference to `flush_dcache_page'
  mm/memory.c:2332: undefined reference to `local_flush_cache_page'
  mm/memory.c:1919: undefined reference to `local_flush_cache_range'
  mm/memory.c:4179: undefined reference to `copy_to_user_page'
  mm/memory.c:4183: undefined reference to `copy_from_user_page'

This happens because implementation of these functions is only compiled
when data cache is WB, which looks wrong: even when data cache doesn't
need flushing it still needs invalidation. The functions like
__flush_[invalidate_]dcache_* are correctly defined for both WB and WT
caches (and even if they weren't that'd still be ok, just slower).

Fix this by providing the same implementation of the above functions for
both WB and WT cache.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support</title>
<updated>2015-02-20T00:49:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-29T18:51:32+00:00</published>
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commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust filenames, context
 - Drop arc, metag, nios2 and lustre changes
 - For sh, patch both 32-bit and 64-bit implementations to use goto bad_area
 - For s390, pass int_code and trans_exc_code as arguments to do_no_context()
   and do_sigsegv()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust filenames, context
 - Drop arc, metag, nios2 and lustre changes
 - For sh, patch both 32-bit and 64-bit implementations to use goto bad_area
 - For s390, pass int_code and trans_exc_code as arguments to do_no_context()
   and do_sigsegv()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xtensa: re-wire umount syscall to sys_oldumount</title>
<updated>2014-12-14T16:23:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Filippov</name>
<email>jcmvbkbc@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-06T17:01:17+00:00</published>
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commit 2651cc6974d47fc43bef1cd8cd26966e4f5ba306 upstream.

Userspace actually passes single parameter (path name) to the umount
syscall, so new umount just fails. Fix it by requesting old umount
syscall implementation and re-wiring umount to it.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 2651cc6974d47fc43bef1cd8cd26966e4f5ba306 upstream.

Userspace actually passes single parameter (path name) to the umount
syscall, so new umount just fails. Fix it by requesting old umount
syscall implementation and re-wiring umount to it.

Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xtensa: don't use alternate signal stack on threads</title>
<updated>2013-11-28T14:02:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Baruch Siach</name>
<email>baruch@tkos.co.il</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-14T22:22:43+00:00</published>
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commit cba9a90053e3b7973eff4f1946f33032e98eeed5 upstream.

According to create_thread(3): "The new thread does not inherit the creating
thread's alternate signal stack". Since commit f9a3879a (Fix sigaltstack
corruption among cloned threads), current-&gt;sas_ss_size is set to 0 for cloned
processes sharing VM with their parent. Don't use the (nonexistent) alternate
signal stack in this case. This has been broken since commit 29c4dfd9 ([XTENSA]
Remove non-rt signal handling).

Fixes the SA_ONSTACK part of the nptl/tst-cancel20 test from uClibc.

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach &lt;baruch@tkos.co.il&gt;
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit cba9a90053e3b7973eff4f1946f33032e98eeed5 upstream.

According to create_thread(3): "The new thread does not inherit the creating
thread's alternate signal stack". Since commit f9a3879a (Fix sigaltstack
corruption among cloned threads), current-&gt;sas_ss_size is set to 0 for cloned
processes sharing VM with their parent. Don't use the (nonexistent) alternate
signal stack in this case. This has been broken since commit 29c4dfd9 ([XTENSA]
Remove non-rt signal handling).

Fixes the SA_ONSTACK part of the nptl/tst-cancel20 test from uClibc.

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach &lt;baruch@tkos.co.il&gt;
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Define __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER so we know whether to clear sa_restorer</title>
<updated>2013-03-27T02:41:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>ben@decadent.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-26T03:24:19+00:00</published>
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flush_signal_handlers() needs to know whether sigaction::sa_restorer
is defined, not whether SA_RESTORER is defined.  Define the
__ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER macro to indicate this.

Vaguely based on upstream commit 574c4866e33d 'consolidate kernel-side
struct sigaction declarations'.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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flush_signal_handlers() needs to know whether sigaction::sa_restorer
is defined, not whether SA_RESTORER is defined.  Define the
__ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER macro to indicate this.

Vaguely based on upstream commit 574c4866e33d 'consolidate kernel-side
struct sigaction declarations'.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2011-10-26T15:15:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-26T15:15:03+00:00</published>
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* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  time, s390: Get rid of compile warning
  dw_apb_timer: constify clocksource name
  time: Cleanup old CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME references that snuck in
  time: Change jiffies_to_clock_t() argument type to unsigned long
  alarmtimers: Fix error handling
  clocksource: Make watchdog reset lockless
  posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP accounting oddities
  s390: Use direct ktime path for s390 clockevent device
  clockevents: Add direct ktime programming function
  clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable
  nohz: Remove "Switched to NOHz mode" debugging messages
  proc: Consider NO_HZ when printing idle and iowait times
  nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update conditional
  nohz: Fix update_ts_time_stat idle accounting
  cputime: Clean up cputime_to_usecs and usecs_to_cputime macros
  alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class interface
  alarmtimers: Add try_to_cancel functionality
  alarmtimers: Add more refined alarm state tracking
  alarmtimers: Remove period from alarm structure
  alarmtimers: Remove interval cap limit hack
  ...
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* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  time, s390: Get rid of compile warning
  dw_apb_timer: constify clocksource name
  time: Cleanup old CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME references that snuck in
  time: Change jiffies_to_clock_t() argument type to unsigned long
  alarmtimers: Fix error handling
  clocksource: Make watchdog reset lockless
  posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP accounting oddities
  s390: Use direct ktime path for s390 clockevent device
  clockevents: Add direct ktime programming function
  clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable
  nohz: Remove "Switched to NOHz mode" debugging messages
  proc: Consider NO_HZ when printing idle and iowait times
  nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update conditional
  nohz: Fix update_ts_time_stat idle accounting
  cputime: Clean up cputime_to_usecs and usecs_to_cputime macros
  alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class interface
  alarmtimers: Add try_to_cancel functionality
  alarmtimers: Add more refined alarm state tracking
  alarmtimers: Remove period from alarm structure
  alarmtimers: Remove interval cap limit hack
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>time: Cleanup old CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME references that snuck in</title>
<updated>2011-10-04T20:07:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Stultz</name>
<email>john.stultz@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-16T22:51:03+00:00</published>
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Awhile back I removed all the CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME referecnes as
the last of the non-GENERIC_TIME arches were converted.

However, due to the functionality being important and around for
awhile, there apparently were some out of tree hardware enablement
patches that used it and have since been merged.

This patch removes the remaining instances of GENERIC_TIME.

Singed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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Awhile back I removed all the CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME referecnes as
the last of the non-GENERIC_TIME arches were converted.

However, due to the functionality being important and around for
awhile, there apparently were some out of tree hardware enablement
patches that used it and have since been merged.

This patch removes the remaining instances of GENERIC_TIME.

Singed-off-by: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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