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<title>metag: Remove _STK_LIM_MAX override</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T23:30:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
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<published>2014-05-01T11:31:14+00:00</published>
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Meta overrode _STK_LIM_MAX (the default RLIMIT_STACK hard limit) to
256MB, apparently in an attempt to prevent setup_arg_pages's
STACK_GROWSUP code from choosing the maximum stack size of 1GB, which is
far too large for Meta's limited virtual address space and hits a BUG_ON
(stack_top is usually 0x3ffff000).

However the commit "metag: Reduce maximum stack size to 256MB" reduces
the absolute stack size limit to a safe value for metag. This allows the
default _STK_LIM_MAX override to be removed, bringing the default
behaviour in line with all other architectures. Parisc in particular
recently removed their override of _STK_LIMT_MAX in commit e0d8898d76a7
(parisc: remove _STK_LIM_MAX override) since it subtly affects stack
allocation semantics in userland. Meta's uapi/asm/resource.h can now be
removed and switch to using generic-y.

Suggested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
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Meta overrode _STK_LIM_MAX (the default RLIMIT_STACK hard limit) to
256MB, apparently in an attempt to prevent setup_arg_pages's
STACK_GROWSUP code from choosing the maximum stack size of 1GB, which is
far too large for Meta's limited virtual address space and hits a BUG_ON
(stack_top is usually 0x3ffff000).

However the commit "metag: Reduce maximum stack size to 256MB" reduces
the absolute stack size limit to a safe value for metag. This allows the
default _STK_LIM_MAX override to be removed, bringing the default
behaviour in line with all other architectures. Parisc in particular
recently removed their override of _STK_LIMT_MAX in commit e0d8898d76a7
(parisc: remove _STK_LIM_MAX override) since it subtly affects stack
allocation semantics in userland. Meta's uapi/asm/resource.h can now be
removed and switch to using generic-y.

Suggested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
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<title>parisc,metag: Do not hardcode maximum userspace stack size</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T23:01:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-30T21:26:02+00:00</published>
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This patch affects only architectures where the stack grows upwards
(currently parisc and metag only). On those do not hardcode the maximum
initial stack size to 1GB for 32-bit processes, but make it configurable
via a config option.

The main problem with the hardcoded stack size is, that we have two
memory regions which grow upwards: stack and heap. To keep most of the
memory available for heap in a flexmap memory layout, it makes no sense
to hard allocate up to 1GB of the memory for stack which can't be used
as heap then.

This patch makes the stack size for 32-bit processes configurable and
uses 80MB as default value which has been in use during the last few
years on parisc and which hasn't showed any problems yet.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
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This patch affects only architectures where the stack grows upwards
(currently parisc and metag only). On those do not hardcode the maximum
initial stack size to 1GB for 32-bit processes, but make it configurable
via a config option.

The main problem with the hardcoded stack size is, that we have two
memory regions which grow upwards: stack and heap. To keep most of the
memory available for heap in a flexmap memory layout, it makes no sense
to hard allocate up to 1GB of the memory for stack which can't be used
as heap then.

This patch makes the stack size for 32-bit processes configurable and
uses 80MB as default value which has been in use during the last few
years on parisc and which hasn't showed any problems yet.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>metag: Reduce maximum stack size to 256MB</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T23:00:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-13T22:58:24+00:00</published>
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Specify the maximum stack size for arches where the stack grows upward
(parisc and metag) in asm/processor.h rather than hard coding in
fs/exec.c so that metag can specify a smaller value of 256MB rather than
1GB.

This fixes a BUG on metag if the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is increased
beyond a safe value by root. E.g. when starting a process after running
"ulimit -H -s unlimited" it will then attempt to use a stack size of the
maximum 1GB which is far too big for metag's limited user virtual
address space (stack_top is usually 0x3ffff000):

BUG: failure at fs/exec.c:589/shift_arg_pages()!

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # only needed for &gt;= v3.9 (arch/metag)
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Specify the maximum stack size for arches where the stack grows upward
(parisc and metag) in asm/processor.h rather than hard coding in
fs/exec.c so that metag can specify a smaller value of 256MB rather than
1GB.

This fixes a BUG on metag if the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is increased
beyond a safe value by root. E.g. when starting a process after running
"ulimit -H -s unlimited" it will then attempt to use a stack size of the
maximum 1GB which is far too big for metag's limited user virtual
address space (stack_top is usually 0x3ffff000):

BUG: failure at fs/exec.c:589/shift_arg_pages()!

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # only needed for &gt;= v3.9 (arch/metag)
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<entry>
<title>metag: fix memory barriers</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T23:00:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-08T19:51:37+00:00</published>
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Volatile access doesn't really imply the compiler barrier. Volatile access
is only ordered with respect to other volatile accesses, it isn't ordered
with respect to general memory accesses. Gcc may reorder memory accesses
around volatile access, as we can see in this simple example (if we
compile it with optimization, both increments of *b will be collapsed to
just one):

void fn(volatile int *a, long *b)
{
	(*b)++;
	*a = 10;
	(*b)++;
}

Consequently, we need the compiler barrier after a write to the volatile
variable, to make sure that the compiler doesn't reorder the volatile
write with something else.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
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Volatile access doesn't really imply the compiler barrier. Volatile access
is only ordered with respect to other volatile accesses, it isn't ordered
with respect to general memory accesses. Gcc may reorder memory accesses
around volatile access, as we can see in this simple example (if we
compile it with optimization, both increments of *b will be collapsed to
just one):

void fn(volatile int *a, long *b)
{
	(*b)++;
	*a = 10;
	(*b)++;
}

Consequently, we need the compiler barrier after a write to the volatile
variable, to make sure that the compiler doesn't reorder the volatile
write with something else.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Kconfig: rename HAS_IOPORT to HAS_IOPORT_MAP</title>
<updated>2014-04-07T23:36:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-07T22:39:19+00:00</published>
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If the renamed symbol is defined lib/iomap.c implements ioport_map and
ioport_unmap and currently (nearly) all platforms define the port
accessor functions outb/inb and friend unconditionally.  So
HAS_IOPORT_MAP is the better name for this.

Consequently NO_IOPORT is renamed to NO_IOPORT_MAP.

The motivation for this change is to reintroduce a symbol HAS_IOPORT
that signals if outb/int et al are available.  I will address that at
least one merge window later though to keep surprises to a minimum and
catch new introductions of (HAS|NO)_IOPORT.

The changes in this commit were done using:

	$ git grep -l -E '(NO|HAS)_IOPORT' | xargs perl -p -i -e 's/\b((?:CONFIG_)?(?:NO|HAS)_IOPORT)\b/$1_MAP/'

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&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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If the renamed symbol is defined lib/iomap.c implements ioport_map and
ioport_unmap and currently (nearly) all platforms define the port
accessor functions outb/inb and friend unconditionally.  So
HAS_IOPORT_MAP is the better name for this.

Consequently NO_IOPORT is renamed to NO_IOPORT_MAP.

The motivation for this change is to reintroduce a symbol HAS_IOPORT
that signals if outb/int et al are available.  I will address that at
least one merge window later though to keep surprises to a minimum and
catch new introductions of (HAS|NO)_IOPORT.

The changes in this commit were done using:

	$ git grep -l -E '(NO|HAS)_IOPORT' | xargs perl -p -i -e 's/\b((?:CONFIG_)?(?:NO|HAS)_IOPORT)\b/$1_MAP/'

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&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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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2014-04-03T17:26:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-03T17:26:31+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Most of the changes were largely clean ups, and some documentation.
  But there were a few features that were added:

  Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers and have
  support under ftrace and perf.

  The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the
  multi buffer instances.  That is, you can now trace some functions in
  one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer
  and so on.  They are basically agnostic from each other.  This only
  works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace,
  although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top
  level buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different
  function tracing going on in the sub buffers"

* tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (45 commits)
  tracing: Add BUG_ON when stack end location is over written
  tracepoint: Remove unused API functions
  Revert "tracing: Move event storage for array from macro to standalone function"
  ftrace: Constify ftrace_text_reserved
  tracepoints: API doc update to tracepoint_probe_register() return value
  tracepoints: API doc update to data argument
  ftrace: Fix compilation warning about control_ops_free
  ftrace/x86: BUG when ftrace recovery fails
  ftrace: Warn on error when modifying ftrace function
  ftrace: Remove freelist from struct dyn_ftrace
  ftrace: Do not pass data to ftrace_dyn_arch_init
  ftrace: Pass retval through return in ftrace_dyn_arch_init()
  ftrace: Inline the code from ftrace_dyn_table_alloc()
  ftrace: Cleanup of global variables ftrace_new_pgs and ftrace_update_cnt
  tracing: Evaluate len expression only once in __dynamic_array macro
  tracing: Correctly expand len expressions from __dynamic_array macro
  tracing/module: Replace include of tracepoint.h with jump_label.h in module.h
  tracing: Fix event header migrate.h to include tracepoint.h
  tracing: Fix event header writeback.h to include tracepoint.h
  tracing: Warn if a tracepoint is not set via debugfs
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Most of the changes were largely clean ups, and some documentation.
  But there were a few features that were added:

  Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers and have
  support under ftrace and perf.

  The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the
  multi buffer instances.  That is, you can now trace some functions in
  one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer
  and so on.  They are basically agnostic from each other.  This only
  works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace,
  although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top
  level buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different
  function tracing going on in the sub buffers"

* tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (45 commits)
  tracing: Add BUG_ON when stack end location is over written
  tracepoint: Remove unused API functions
  Revert "tracing: Move event storage for array from macro to standalone function"
  ftrace: Constify ftrace_text_reserved
  tracepoints: API doc update to tracepoint_probe_register() return value
  tracepoints: API doc update to data argument
  ftrace: Fix compilation warning about control_ops_free
  ftrace/x86: BUG when ftrace recovery fails
  ftrace: Warn on error when modifying ftrace function
  ftrace: Remove freelist from struct dyn_ftrace
  ftrace: Do not pass data to ftrace_dyn_arch_init
  ftrace: Pass retval through return in ftrace_dyn_arch_init()
  ftrace: Inline the code from ftrace_dyn_table_alloc()
  ftrace: Cleanup of global variables ftrace_new_pgs and ftrace_update_cnt
  tracing: Evaluate len expression only once in __dynamic_array macro
  tracing: Correctly expand len expressions from __dynamic_array macro
  tracing/module: Replace include of tracepoint.h with jump_label.h in module.h
  tracing: Fix event header migrate.h to include tracepoint.h
  tracing: Fix event header writeback.h to include tracepoint.h
  tracing: Warn if a tracepoint is not set via debugfs
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'metag-for-v3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag</title>
<updated>2014-04-02T19:22:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-02T19:22:03+00:00</published>
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Pull Metag architecture changes from James Hogan:
 - Remove unused NUMA definition (SD_NODE_INIT)
 - Refactor signal code to use struct ksignal
 - IRQ migration cleanup to use irq_set_affinity
 - Clean up main Kconfig file a little

* tag 'metag-for-v3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag:
  sched: remove unused SCHED_INIT_NODE
  metag: Use get_signal() signal_setup_done()
  metag: Fix METAG Kconfig symbol select ordering
  metag: Use irq_set_affinity instead of homebrewn code
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Pull Metag architecture changes from James Hogan:
 - Remove unused NUMA definition (SD_NODE_INIT)
 - Refactor signal code to use struct ksignal
 - IRQ migration cleanup to use irq_set_affinity
 - Clean up main Kconfig file a little

* tag 'metag-for-v3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag:
  sched: remove unused SCHED_INIT_NODE
  metag: Use get_signal() signal_setup_done()
  metag: Fix METAG Kconfig symbol select ordering
  metag: Use irq_set_affinity instead of homebrewn code
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<entry>
<title>sched: remove unused SCHED_INIT_NODE</title>
<updated>2014-03-19T11:02:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Guittot</name>
<email>vincent.guittot@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-18T17:56:43+00:00</published>
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not used since new numa scheduler init sequence

[James Hogan: see commit cb83b629bae0 (sched/numa: Rewrite the
CONFIG_NUMA sched domain support)]

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
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not used since new numa scheduler init sequence

[James Hogan: see commit cb83b629bae0 (sched/numa: Rewrite the
CONFIG_NUMA sched domain support)]

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>metag: Use get_signal() signal_setup_done()</title>
<updated>2014-03-18T10:30:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-02T23:57:16+00:00</published>
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Use the more generic functions get_signal() signal_setup_done()
for signal delivery.

[James Hogan: avoid reordering get_signal() and restart check.]

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
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Use the more generic functions get_signal() signal_setup_done()
for signal delivery.

[James Hogan: avoid reordering get_signal() and restart check.]

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>metag: Fix METAG Kconfig symbol select ordering</title>
<updated>2014-03-18T10:22:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-16T08:39:24+00:00</published>
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Commit d1a1dc0be866 (consolidate per-arch stack overflow debugging
options) broke the ordering of the selects in arch/metag/Kconfig by
adding select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW at the end. Move it to the right
place.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
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Commit d1a1dc0be866 (consolidate per-arch stack overflow debugging
options) broke the ordering of the selects in arch/metag/Kconfig by
adding select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW at the end. Move it to the right
place.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
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