linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel, branch v2.6.17

[PATCH] powerpc: Fix cell blade detection

2006-06-09T03:06:00+00:00

The IBM Cell blade firmware might confuse the kernel to think it's a
pSeries machine. This fixes it for now. With a bit of luck, the firmware
will be updated to avoid that in the future but currently that patch is
needed.

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

[PATCH] powerpc: Fix call to ibm,client-architecture-support

2006-06-09T03:05:51+00:00

The code in prom_init.c calling the firmware
ibm,client-architecture-support method on pSeries has a bug where it
fails to properly pass the instance handle of the firmware object when
trying to call a method. Result ranges from the call doing nothing to
the firmware crashing. (Found by Segher, thanks !)

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

powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernels

2006-06-09T03:02:59+00:00

This fixes a bug found by Dave Jones that means that it is possible
for userspace to provoke a machine check on 32-bit kernels.  This
also fixes a couple of other places where I found similar problems
by inspection.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: fix RTC/NVRAM accesses on Maple

2006-05-26T12:39:00+00:00

Due to a firmware device tree bug, RTC and NVRAM accesses (including
halt/reboot) on Maple have been broken since January, when an untested
build fix went in. This code patches the device tree in Linux.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: wire up sys_[gs]et_robust_list

2006-05-23T17:35:32+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Fix pSeries identification in prom_init.c

2006-05-16T11:31:25+00:00

The OF trampoline code prom_init.c still needs to identify IBM pSeries
(PAPR) machines in order to run some platform specific code on them like
instanciating the TCE tables. The code doing that detection was changed
recently in 2.6.17 early stages but was done slightly incorrectly. It
should be testing for an exact match of "chrp" and it currently tests
for anything that begins with "chrp". That means it will incorrectly
match with platforms using Maple-like device-trees and have open
firmware. This fixes it by using strcmp instead of strncmp to match what
the actual platform detection code does.

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

[PATCH] powerpc: Use the ibm,pa-features property if available

2006-05-03T13:06:47+00:00

Forthcoming IBM machines will have a "ibm,pa-features" property on CPU
nodes, that contains bits indicating which optional architecture
features are implemented by the CPU.  This adds code to use the
property, if present, to update our CPU feature bitmaps.  Note that
this means we can both set and clear feature bits based on what
the firmware tells us.

This is based on a patch by Will Schmidt .

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc/kprobes: fix singlestep out-of-line

2006-05-03T13:06:41+00:00

We currently single-step inline if the instruction on which a kprobe is
inserted is a trap variant.

- variants (such as tdnei, used by BUG()) typically evaluate a condition
  and cause a trap only if the condition is satisfied.
- kprobes uses the unconditional "trap" (0x7fe00008) and single-stepping
  again on this instruction, resulting in another trap without
  evaluating the condition is obviously incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

Merge branch 'audit.b10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current

2006-05-02T04:43:05+00:00

* 'audit.b10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  [PATCH] Audit Filter Performance
  [PATCH] Rework of IPC auditing
  [PATCH] More user space subject labels
  [PATCH] Reworked patch for labels on user space messages
  [PATCH] change lspp ipc auditing
  [PATCH] audit inode patch
  [PATCH] support for context based audit filtering, part 2
  [PATCH] support for context based audit filtering
  [PATCH] no need to wank with task_lock() and pinning task down in audit_syscall_exit()
  [PATCH] drop task argument of audit_syscall_{entry,exit}
  [PATCH] drop gfp_mask in audit_log_exit()
  [PATCH] move call of audit_free() into do_exit()
  [PATCH] sockaddr patch
  [PATCH] deal with deadlocks in audit_free()

[PATCH] powerpc: Allow devices to register with numa topology

2006-05-02T01:17:46+00:00

Change of_node_to_nid() to traverse the device tree, looking for a numa id.
Cell uses this to assign ids to SPUs, which are children of the CPU node.
Existing users of of_node_to_nid() are altered to use of_node_to_nid_single(),
which doesn't do the traversal.

Export an attach_sysdev_to_node() function, allowing system devices (eg.
SPUs) to link themselves into the numa topology in sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds