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<title>[ARM] Convert asm/uaccess.h to linux/uaccess.h</title>
<updated>2008-09-06T10:35:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2008-09-06T10:35:55+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>[ARM] remove pc_pointer()</title>
<updated>2008-09-06T09:35:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-06T09:14:24+00:00</published>
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pc_pointer() was a function to mask the PC for 26-bit ARMs, which
we no longer support.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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pc_pointer() was a function to mask the PC for 26-bit ARMs, which
we no longer support.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>[ARM] sparse: fix several warnings</title>
<updated>2008-09-05T13:11:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2008-09-05T13:08:44+00:00</published>
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arch/arm/kernel/process.c:270:6: warning: symbol 'show_fpregs' was not declared. Should it be static?

This function isn't used, so can be removed.

arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:532:9: warning: symbol 'len' shadows an earlier one
arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:524:6: originally declared here

A function containing two 'len's.

arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c:188:13: warning: symbol 'check_writebuffer_bugs' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/arm/mm/mmap.c:122:5: warning: symbol 'valid_phys_addr_range' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/arm/mm/mmap.c:137:5: warning: symbol 'valid_mmap_phys_addr_range' was not declared. Should it be static?

Missing includes.

arch/arm/kernel/traps.c:71:77: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c:355:46: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)

Sillies.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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arch/arm/kernel/process.c:270:6: warning: symbol 'show_fpregs' was not declared. Should it be static?

This function isn't used, so can be removed.

arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:532:9: warning: symbol 'len' shadows an earlier one
arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:524:6: originally declared here

A function containing two 'len's.

arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c:188:13: warning: symbol 'check_writebuffer_bugs' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/arm/mm/mmap.c:122:5: warning: symbol 'valid_phys_addr_range' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/arm/mm/mmap.c:137:5: warning: symbol 'valid_mmap_phys_addr_range' was not declared. Should it be static?

Missing includes.

arch/arm/kernel/traps.c:71:77: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c:355:46: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)

Sillies.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>[ARM] Move include/asm-arm/arch-* to arch/arm/*/include/mach</title>
<updated>2008-08-07T08:55:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-05T15:14:15+00:00</published>
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This just leaves include/asm-arm/plat-* to deal with.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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This just leaves include/asm-arm/plat-* to deal with.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into timers/nohz</title>
<updated>2008-07-18T17:53:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-18T17:53:16+00:00</published>
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<title>nohz: prevent tick stop outside of the idle loop</title>
<updated>2008-07-18T16:10:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-18T15:27:28+00:00</published>
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Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing
problem in the NOHZ code:

	scheduler switch to idle task
	enable interrupts

Window starts here

	----&gt; interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED)
	      	irq_exit() stops the tick

	----&gt; interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED)

	return from schedule()
	
	cpu_idle(): preempt_disable();

Window ends here

The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The
first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to
rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick
disabled.

The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set
NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly
hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric.

Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure
that we can not run into such a situation ever again.

cpu_idle()
{
	preempt_disable();

	while(1) {
		 tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); &lt;- tell NOHZ code that we
		 			          are in the idle loop

		 while (!need_resched())
		       halt();

		 tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); &lt;- disables NOHZ mode
		 preempt_enable_no_resched();
		 schedule();
		 preempt_disable();
	}
}

In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ... 

/me grabs a large brown paperbag.

Debugged-by: Jack Ren &lt;jack.ren@marvell.com&gt;, 
Debugged-by: eric miao &lt;eric.y.miao@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing
problem in the NOHZ code:

	scheduler switch to idle task
	enable interrupts

Window starts here

	----&gt; interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED)
	      	irq_exit() stops the tick

	----&gt; interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED)

	return from schedule()
	
	cpu_idle(): preempt_disable();

Window ends here

The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The
first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to
rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick
disabled.

The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set
NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly
hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric.

Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure
that we can not run into such a situation ever again.

cpu_idle()
{
	preempt_disable();

	while(1) {
		 tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); &lt;- tell NOHZ code that we
		 			          are in the idle loop

		 while (!need_resched())
		       halt();

		 tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); &lt;- disables NOHZ mode
		 preempt_enable_no_resched();
		 schedule();
		 preempt_disable();
	}
}

In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ... 

/me grabs a large brown paperbag.

Debugged-by: Jack Ren &lt;jack.ren@marvell.com&gt;, 
Debugged-by: eric miao &lt;eric.y.miao@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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<title>[ARM] dyntick: Remove obsolete and unused ARM dyntick support</title>
<updated>2008-05-12T16:39:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-20T12:57:26+00:00</published>
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dyntick is superseded by the clocksource/clockevent infrastructure,
using the NO_HZ configuration option.  No one implements dyntick on
ARM anymore, so it's pointless keeping it around.  Remove dyntick
support.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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dyntick is superseded by the clocksource/clockevent infrastructure,
using the NO_HZ configuration option.  No one implements dyntick on
ARM anymore, so it's pointless keeping it around.  Remove dyntick
support.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>aout: remove unnecessary inclusions of {asm, linux}/a.out.h</title>
<updated>2008-02-08T17:22:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-08T12:19:29+00:00</published>
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Remove now unnecessary inclusions of {asm,linux}/a.out.h.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build]
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&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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Remove now unnecessary inclusions of {asm,linux}/a.out.h.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build]
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&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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<title>aout: suppress A.OUT library support if !CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT</title>
<updated>2008-02-08T17:22:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-08T12:19:28+00:00</published>
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Suppress A.OUT library support if CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT is not set.

Not all architectures support the A.OUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt should not
be permitted to go looking for A.OUT libraries to load in such a case.  Not
only that, but under such conditions A.OUT core dumps are not produced either.

To make this work, this patch also does the following:

 (1) Makes the existence of the contents of linux/a.out.h contingent on
     CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT.

 (2) Renames dump_thread() to aout_dump_thread() as it's only called by A.OUT
     core dumping code.

 (3) Moves aout_dump_thread() into asm/a.out-core.h and makes it inline.  This
     is then included only where needed.  This means that this bit of arch
     code will be stored in the appropriate A.OUT binfmt module rather than
     the core kernel.

 (4) Drops A.OUT support for Blackfin (according to Mike Frysinger it's not
     needed) and FRV.

This patch depends on the previous patch to move STACK_TOP[_MAX] out of
asm/a.out.h and into asm/processor.h as they're required whether or not A.OUT
format is available.

[jdike@addtoit.com: uml: re-remove accidentally restored code]
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.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;
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Suppress A.OUT library support if CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT is not set.

Not all architectures support the A.OUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt should not
be permitted to go looking for A.OUT libraries to load in such a case.  Not
only that, but under such conditions A.OUT core dumps are not produced either.

To make this work, this patch also does the following:

 (1) Makes the existence of the contents of linux/a.out.h contingent on
     CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT.

 (2) Renames dump_thread() to aout_dump_thread() as it's only called by A.OUT
     core dumping code.

 (3) Moves aout_dump_thread() into asm/a.out-core.h and makes it inline.  This
     is then included only where needed.  This means that this bit of arch
     code will be stored in the appropriate A.OUT binfmt module rather than
     the core kernel.

 (4) Drops A.OUT support for Blackfin (according to Mike Frysinger it's not
     needed) and FRV.

This patch depends on the previous patch to move STACK_TOP[_MAX] out of
asm/a.out.h and into asm/processor.h as they're required whether or not A.OUT
format is available.

[jdike@addtoit.com: uml: re-remove accidentally restored code]
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@linux.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;
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<title>Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks (arch code)</title>
<updated>2007-10-19T18:53:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-19T06:40:41+00:00</published>
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One of the easiest things to isolate is the pid printed in kernel log.
There was a patch, that made this for arch-independent code, this one makes
so for arch/xxx files.

It took some time to cross-compile it, but hopefully these are all the
printks in arch code.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&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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One of the easiest things to isolate is the pid printed in kernel log.
There was a patch, that made this for arch-independent code, this one makes
so for arch/xxx files.

It took some time to cross-compile it, but hopefully these are all the
printks in arch code.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&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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