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<title>Simplify copy_thread()</title>
<updated>2009-04-03T02:04:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-02T23:56:59+00:00</published>
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First argument unused since 2.3.11.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.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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First argument unused since 2.3.11.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.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>[ARM] pass reboot command line to arch_reset()</title>
<updated>2009-03-19T16:20:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-19T16:20:24+00:00</published>
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OMAP wishes to pass state to the boot loader upon reboot in order to
instruct it whether to wait for USB-based reflashing or not.  There is
already a facility to do this via the reboot() syscall, except we ignore
the string passed to machine_restart().

This patch fixes things to pass this string to arch_reset().  This means
that we keep the reboot mode limited to telling the kernel _how_ to
perform the reboot which should be independent of what we request the
boot loader to do.

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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OMAP wishes to pass state to the boot loader upon reboot in order to
instruct it whether to wait for USB-based reflashing or not.  There is
already a facility to do this via the reboot() syscall, except we ignore
the string passed to machine_restart().

This patch fixes things to pass this string to arch_reset().  This means
that we keep the reboot mode limited to telling the kernel _how_ to
perform the reboot which should be independent of what we request the
boot loader to do.

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>[ARM] 5382/1: unwind: Reorganise the stacktrace support</title>
<updated>2009-02-12T13:21:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-11T12:07:53+00:00</published>
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This patch changes the walk_stacktrace and its callers for easier
integration of stack unwinding. The arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.h file is
also moved to arch/arm/include/asm/stacktrace.h.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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This patch changes the walk_stacktrace and its callers for easier
integration of stack unwinding. The arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.h file is
also moved to arch/arm/include/asm/stacktrace.h.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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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>
</author>
<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>
</author>
<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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<entry>
<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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<entry>
<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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