linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.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] Fix vDSO page count calculation

2007-02-13T04:35:52+00:00

The recent vDSO consolidation patches broke powerpc due to a mistake
in the definition of MAXPAGES constants. This fixes it by moving to
a dynamically allocated array of pages instead as I don't like much
hard coded size limits. Also move the vdso initialisation to an initcall
since it doesn't really need to be done -that- early.

Applogies for not catching the breakage earlier, Roland _did_ CC me on
his patches a while ago, I got busy with other things and forgot to test
them.

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

[PATCH] powerpc vDSO: use install_special_mapping

2007-02-09T17:25:47+00:00

This patch uses install_special_mapping for the powerpc vDSO setup,
consolidating duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] powerpc vDSO: use VM_ALWAYSDUMP

2007-01-26T21:50:58+00:00

This patch fixes core dumps to include the vDSO vma, which is left out now.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL

2006-12-07T16:39:24+00:00

SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[POWERPC] Support feature fixups in vdso's

2006-10-25T01:54:07+00:00

This patch reworks the feature fixup mecanism so vdso's can be fixed up.
The main issue was that the construct:

        .long   label  (or .llong on 64 bits)

will not work in the case of a shared library like the vdso. It will
generate an empty placeholder in the fixup table along with a reloc,
which is not something we can deal with in the vdso.

The idea here (thanks Alan Modra !) is to instead use something like:

1:
        .long   label - 1b

That is, the feature fixup tables no longer contain addresses of bits of
code to patch, but offsets of such code from the fixup table entry
itself. That is properly resolved by ld when building the .so's. I've
modified the fixup mecanism generically to use that method for the rest
of the kernel as well.

Another trick is that the 32 bits vDSO included in the 64 bits kernel
need to have a table in the 64 bits format. However, gas does not
support 32 bits code with a statement of the form:

        .llong  label - 1b  (Or even just .llong label)

That is, it cannot emit the right fixup/relocation for the linker to use
to assign a 32 bits address to an .llong field. Thus, in the specific
case of the 32 bits vdso built as part of the 64 bits kernel, we are
using a modified macro that generates:

        .long   0xffffffff
        .llong  label - 1b

Note that is assumes that the value is negative which is enforced by
the .lds (those offsets are always negative as the .text is always
before the fixup table and gas doesn't support emiting the reloc the
other way around).

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

Remove obsolete #include

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

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

[PATCH] powerpc vdso updates

2006-06-09T11:20:57+00:00

This patch cleans up some locking & error handling in the ppc vdso and
moves the vdso base pointer from the thread struct to the mm context
where it more logically belongs. It brings the powerpc implementation
closer to Ingo's new x86 one and also adds an arch_vma_name() function
allowing to print [vsdo] in /proc//maps if Ingo's x86 vdso patch is
also applied.

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

[PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbers

2006-03-28T12:15:54+00:00

This removes statically assigned platform numbers and reworks the
powerpc platform probe code to use a better mechanism.  With this,
board support files can simply declare a new machine type with a
macro, and implement a probe() function that uses the flattened
device-tree to detect if they apply for a given machine.

We now have a machine_is() macro that replaces the comparisons of
_machine with the various PLATFORM_* constants.  This commit also
changes various drivers to use the new macro instead of looking at
_machine.

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

Merge ../linux-2.6

2006-03-09T03:32:05+00:00