linux.git/arch/arm/kernel/process.c, branch v2.6.33 Linux kernel source tree ARM: 5868/1: ARM: fix "BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code" 2010-01-08T16:14:29+00:00 Rabin Vincent rabin@rab.in 2010-01-08T15:59:34+00:00 22325525d8bb1478daddefec1b762e7882bcd515 Fix the following warning, which appears when the register dump for a faulting process is printed in a kernel with SMP, DEBUG_PREEMPT, and DEBUG_USER (with user_debug=31) enabled: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: init/1 caller is __show_regs+0x18/0x234 Backtrace: [<c0159e5c>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x114) from [<c01faf30>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c) r6:c781a000 r5:c0157544 r4:00000001 r3:00000000 [<c01faf18>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c01e5230>] (debug_smp_processor_id+0xc4/0xf8) [<c01e516c>] (debug_smp_processor_id+0x0/0xf8) from [<c0157544>] (__show_regs+0x18/0x234) r6:c781bfb0 r5:00000000 r4:c781bfb0 r3:00000000 [<c015752c>] (__show_regs+0x0/0x234) from [<c01577a0>] (show_regs+0x40/0x50) [<c0157760>] (show_regs+0x0/0x50) from [<c015c968>] (__do_user_fault+0x5c/0xa4) r4:c781c000 r3:00000000 [<c015c90c>] (__do_user_fault+0x0/0xa4) from [<c015cbe0>] (do_page_fault+0x1b4/0x1e4) r7:00000000 r6:00010000 r5:c781bfb0 r4:c781c000 [<c015ca2c>] (do_page_fault+0x0/0x1e4) from [<c01554c8>] (do_DataAbort+0x3c/0xa0) [<c015548c>] (do_DataAbort+0x0/0xa0) from [<c01560c4>] (ret_from_exception+0x0/0x10) Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> 
Fix the following warning, which appears when the register dump for a
faulting process is printed in a kernel with SMP, DEBUG_PREEMPT, and
DEBUG_USER (with user_debug=31) enabled:

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: init/1
caller is __show_regs+0x18/0x234
Backtrace:
[<c0159e5c>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x114) from [<c01faf30>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c)
 r6:c781a000 r5:c0157544 r4:00000001 r3:00000000
[<c01faf18>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c01e5230>] (debug_smp_processor_id+0xc4/0xf8)
[<c01e516c>] (debug_smp_processor_id+0x0/0xf8) from [<c0157544>] (__show_regs+0x18/0x234)
 r6:c781bfb0 r5:00000000 r4:c781bfb0 r3:00000000
[<c015752c>] (__show_regs+0x0/0x234) from [<c01577a0>] (show_regs+0x40/0x50)
[<c0157760>] (show_regs+0x0/0x50) from [<c015c968>] (__do_user_fault+0x5c/0xa4)
 r4:c781c000 r3:00000000
[<c015c90c>] (__do_user_fault+0x0/0xa4) from [<c015cbe0>] (do_page_fault+0x1b4/0x1e4)
 r7:00000000 r6:00010000 r5:c781bfb0 r4:c781c000
[<c015ca2c>] (do_page_fault+0x0/0x1e4) from [<c01554c8>] (do_DataAbort+0x3c/0xa0)
[<c015548c>] (do_DataAbort+0x0/0xa0) from [<c01560c4>] (ret_from_exception+0x0/0x10)

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
ARM: Convert VFP/Crunch/XscaleCP thread_release() to exit_thread() 2009-12-18T14:53:41+00:00 Russell King rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk 2009-12-18T14:34:43+00:00 797245f5da543074ee7db0e0516da744c89aa17f This avoids races in the VFP code where the dead thread may have state on another CPU. By moving this code to exit_thread(), we will be running as the thread, and therefore be running on the current CPU. This means that we can ensure that the only local state is accessed in the thread notifiers. Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> 
This avoids races in the VFP code where the dead thread may have
state on another CPU.  By moving this code to exit_thread(), we
will be running as the thread, and therefore be running on the
current CPU.

This means that we can ensure that the only local state is accessed
in the thread notifiers.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
ARM: 5759/1: Add register information of threads to coredump 2009-10-14T09:33:05+00:00 Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1@gmail.com 2009-10-13T07:54:30+00:00 cde3f8607350666c4dd120dbbdbd9c70ffb2ea61 Defines ELF_CORE_COPY_TASK_REGS so that CPU register information of every thread is included in coredump. Without this, only the faulting thread is coredumped. Cc: Roger Quadros <ext-roger.quadros@nokia.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> 
Defines ELF_CORE_COPY_TASK_REGS so that CPU register information
of every thread is included in coredump. Without this, only the faulting
thread is coredumped.

Cc: Roger Quadros <ext-roger.quadros@nokia.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Thumb-2: Implementation of the unified start-up and exceptions code 2009-07-24T11:32:54+00:00 Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com 2009-07-24T11:32:54+00:00 b86040a59feb255a8193173caa4d5199464433d5 This patch implements the ARM/Thumb-2 unified kernel start-up and exception handling code. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> 
This patch implements the ARM/Thumb-2 unified kernel start-up and
exception handling code.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
[ARM] idle: clean up pm_idle calling, obey hlt_counter 2009-06-22T21:34:55+00:00 Russell King rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk 2009-06-22T21:34:55+00:00 9ccdac3662dbf3c75e8f8851a214bdf7d365a4bd pm_idle is used by infrastructure (eg, cpuidle) which expects architectures to call it in a certain way. Arrange for ARM to follow x86's lead on this and call pm_idle() with interrupts already disabled. However, we expect pm_idle() to enable interrupts before it returns. Also, OMAP wants to be able to disable hlt-ing, so allow hlt_counter to prevent all calls to pm_idle. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> 
pm_idle is used by infrastructure (eg, cpuidle) which expects architectures
to call it in a certain way.  Arrange for ARM to follow x86's lead on this
and call pm_idle() with interrupts already disabled.  However, we expect
pm_idle() to enable interrupts before it returns.

Also, OMAP wants to be able to disable hlt-ing, so allow hlt_counter to
prevent all calls to pm_idle.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] 5559/1: Limit the stack unwinding caused by a kthread exit 2009-06-19T15:44:23+00:00 Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com 2009-06-19T15:43:08+00:00 feb97c3644a560ffdf9a17c65b1df807b5b4432f When a kthread function returns, it branches to do_exit(). However, the unwinding information isn't valid anymore and any stack trace caused by do_exit() may be incorrect. This patch adds a kernel_thread_exit() function and annotated with '.cantunwind' so that the unwinder stops when reaching it. Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> 
When a kthread function returns, it branches to do_exit(). However, the
unwinding information isn't valid anymore and any stack trace caused by
do_exit() may be incorrect. This patch adds a kernel_thread_exit()
function and annotated with '.cantunwind' so that the unwinder stops
when reaching it.

Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Add core support for ARMv6/v7 big-endian 2009-05-30T13:00:18+00:00 Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com 2009-05-30T13:00:18+00:00 26584853a44c58f3d6ac7360d697a2ddcd1a3efa Starting with ARMv6, the CPUs support the BE-8 variant of big-endian (byte-invariant). This patch adds the core support: - setting of the BE-8 mode via the CPSR.E register for both kernel and user threads - big-endian page table walking - REV used to rotate instructions read from memory during fault processing as they are still little-endian format - Kconfig and Makefile support for BE-8. The --be8 option must be passed to the final linking stage to convert the instructions to little-endian Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> 
Starting with ARMv6, the CPUs support the BE-8 variant of big-endian
(byte-invariant). This patch adds the core support:

- setting of the BE-8 mode via the CPSR.E register for both kernel and
  user threads
- big-endian page table walking
- REV used to rotate instructions read from memory during fault
  processing as they are still little-endian format
- Kconfig and Makefile support for BE-8. The --be8 option must be passed
  to the final linking stage to convert the instructions to
  little-endian

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Simplify copy_thread() 2009-04-03T02:04:51+00:00 Alexey Dobriyan adobriyan@gmail.com 2009-04-02T23:56:59+00:00 6f2c55b843836d26528c56a0968689accaedbc67 First argument unused since 2.3.11. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
First argument unused since 2.3.11.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[ARM] pass reboot command line to arch_reset() 2009-03-19T16:20:24+00:00 Russell King rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk 2009-03-19T16:20:24+00:00 be093beb608edf821b45fe00a8a080fb5c6ed4af 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 <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> 
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 <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] 5382/1: unwind: Reorganise the stacktrace support 2009-02-12T13:21:17+00:00 Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com 2009-02-11T12:07:53+00:00 2d7c11bfc91637e5f9bc5f8c9a82aaffcc0e97aa 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 <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> 
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 <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>