linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c, branch v2.6.22

header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used

2007-05-08T18:15:07+00:00

Remove includes of  where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[POWERPC] Make tlb flush batch use lazy MMU mode

2007-04-12T18:09:38+00:00

The current tlb flush code on powerpc 64 bits has a subtle race since we
lost the page table lock due to the possible faulting in of new PTEs
after a previous one has been removed but before the corresponding hash
entry has been evicted, which can leads to all sort of fatal problems.

This patch reworks the batch code completely. It doesn't use the mmu_gather
stuff anymore. Instead, we use the lazy mmu hooks that were added by the
paravirt code. They have the nice property that the enter/leave lazy mmu
mode pair is always fully contained by the PTE lock for a given range
of PTEs. Thus we can guarantee that all batches are flushed on a given
CPU before it drops that lock.

We also generalize batching for any PTE update that require a flush.

Batching is now enabled on a CPU by arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() and
disabled by arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(). The code epects that this is
always contained within a PTE lock section so no preemption can happen
and no PTE insertion in that range from another CPU. When batching
is enabled on a CPU, every PTE updates that need a hash flush will
use the batch for that flush.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into for-2.6.22

2007-04-12T17:50:03+00:00

[POWERPC] Use lowercase for hex printouts in oops messages.

2007-03-26T02:35:03+00:00

Use lowercase for hex printouts in oops messages. The number of times I have
tried to copy and paste from an oops into an objdump search...

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Acked-by: Olof Johansson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Remove last_syscall

2007-03-22T11:52:58+00:00

Remove last_syscall from 32bit powerpc, its been gone in 64bit for years.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Fix atomicity of TIF update in flush_thread()

2007-03-16T05:37:28+00:00

Fix atomicity of TIF update in flush_thread() for powerpc

Fixes it correctly with *_ti_thread_flag.

Race :

parent process executing :
sys_ptrace()
 (lock_kernel())
 (ptrace_get_task_struct(pid))
 arch_ptrace()
   ptrace_detach()
     ptrace_disable(child);
       clear_singlestep(child);
         clear_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_SINGLESTEP);
         (which clears the TIF_SINGLESTEP flag atomically from a different
          process)
 (put_task_struct(child))
 (unlock_kernel())

And at the same time, in the child process :
sys_execve()
 do_execve()
   search_binary_handler()
     load_elf_binary()
       flush_old_exec()
         flush_thread()
           doing a non-atomic thread flag update

Applies on 2.6.20.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Harden validate_sp against stack corruption

2007-03-08T04:31:43+00:00

If something has overflowed or corrupted the stack and causes an oops,
and we try to print a stack trace, that will call validate_sp, which
can itself cause an oops if the cpu field of the thread_info struct at
the bottom of the stack has been corrupted (if CONFIG_IRQSTACKS is
set).  This makes debugging harder.

To avoid the second oops, this adds a check to make sure that the cpu
number is reasonable before using it to check whether the stack is on
the softirq or hardirq stack.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Better check in show_instructions

2006-10-16T05:53:30+00:00

Instead of just checking that an address is in the right range, use the
provided __kernel_text_address() helper which covers both the kernel and
module text sections.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] namespaces: utsname: use init_utsname when appropriate

2006-10-02T14:57:21+00:00

In some places, particularly drivers and __init code, the init utsns is the
appropriate one to use.  This patch replaces those with a the init_utsname
helper.

Changes: Removed several uses of init_utsname().  Hope I picked all the
	right ones in net/ipv4/ipconfig.c.  These are now changed to
	utsname() (the per-process namespace utsname) in the previous
	patch (2/7)

[akpm@osdl.org: CIFS fix]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Cc: Kirill Korotaev 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Herbert Poetzl 
Cc: Andrey Savochkin 
Cc: Serge Hallyn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk