linux-stable.git/include/asm-um, branch linux-2.6.17.y

[PATCH] uml: more __user annotations

2006-06-05T19:29:17+00:00

From: Al Viro 

uml __user annotations

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: add asm/irqflags.h

2006-06-05T19:29:17+00:00

From: Jeff Dike 

Add an empty asm/irqflags.h, which seems to satisfy the lock validator enough
that UML builds.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: fix "extern-vs-static" proto conflict in TLS code

2006-04-11T13:18:36+00:00

Move the prototype from arch-generic to arch-specific includes because on
x86_64 these functions are two static inlines.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: check for differences in host support

2006-03-31T20:18:52+00:00

If running on a host not supporting TLS (for instance 2.4) we should report
that cleanly to the user, instead of printing not comprehensible "error 5" for
that.

Additionally, i386 and x86_64 support different ranges for
user_desc->entry_number, and we must account for that; we couldn't pass
ourselves -1 because we need to override previously existing TLS descriptors
which glibc has possibly set, so test at startup the range to use.

x86 and x86_64 existing ranges are hardcoded.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Acked-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: implement {get,set}_thread_area for i386

2006-03-31T20:18:52+00:00

Implement sys_[gs]et_thread_area and the corresponding ptrace operations for
UML.  This is the main chunk, additional parts follow.  This implementation is
now well tested and has run reliably for some time, and we've understood all
the previously existing problems.

Their implementation saves the new GDT content and then forwards the call to
the host when appropriate, i.e.  immediately when the target process is
running or on context switch otherwise (i.e.  on fork and on ptrace() calls).

In SKAS mode, we must switch registers on each context switch (because SKAS
does not switches tls_array together with current->mm).

Also, added get_cpu() locking; this has been done for SKAS mode, since TT does
not need it (it does not use smp_processor_id()).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Acked-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: split ldt.h in arch-independent and arch-dependant code

2006-03-31T20:18:51+00:00

ldt-{i386,x86_64}.h is made of two different parts - some code for parsing of
LDT descriptors, which is arch-dependant, and the code to handle uml_ldt_t (an
LDT block inside UML), which is mostly arch-independant (among x86 and x86_64,
at least).

Join the common part in a single file (ldt.h) and split the rest away
(host_ldt-{i386,x86_64}.h).

This is needed because processor.h, with next patches, will start including
the LDT descriptor parsing macros in host_ldt.h, but it can't include ldt.h
because it uses semaphores (and to define semaphores one must first include
processor.h!).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Acked-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: sparse cleanups

2006-03-31T20:18:51+00:00

misc sparse annotations

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] unify pfn_to_page: uml pfn_to_page

2006-03-27T16:44:46+00:00

UML can use generic funcs.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: fix build warnings in __get_user

2006-03-27T16:44:37+00:00

Fix a gcc warning about losing qualifiers to the first argument of
copy_from_user.  The typeof change for correctness, and fixes a lot of the
warnings, but there are some cases where x has some extra qualifiers, like
volatile, which copy_from_user can't know about.  For these, the void * cast
seems to be necessary.

Also cleaned up some of the whitespace and got rid of the emacs comment at the
bottom.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] x86: SMP alternatives

2006-03-23T15:38:04+00:00

Implement SMP alternatives, i.e.  switching at runtime between different
code versions for UP and SMP.  The code can patch both SMP->UP and UP->SMP.
The UP->SMP case is useful for CPU hotplug.

With CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG enabled the code switches to UP at boot time and
when the number of CPUs goes down to 1, and switches to SMP when the number
of CPUs goes up to 2.

Without CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG or on non-SMP-capable systems the code is
patched once at boot time (if needed) and the tables are released
afterwards.

The changes in detail:

  * The current alternatives bits are moved to a separate file,
    the SMP alternatives code is added there.

  * The patch adds some new elf sections to the kernel:
    .smp_altinstructions
	like .altinstructions, also contains a list
	of alt_instr structs.
    .smp_altinstr_replacement
	like .altinstr_replacement, but also has some space to
	save original instruction before replaving it.
    .smp_locks
	list of pointers to lock prefixes which can be nop'ed
	out on UP.
    The first two are used to replace more complex instruction
    sequences such as spinlocks and semaphores.  It would be possible
    to deal with the lock prefixes with that as well, but by handling
    them as special case the table sizes become much smaller.

 * The sections are page-aligned and padded up to page size, so they
   can be free if they are not needed.

 * Splitted the code to release init pages to a separate function and
   use it to release the elf sections if they are unused.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann 
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds