linux.git/arch/ppc/kernel/traps.c, branch v2.6.19

[POWERPC] Make alignment exception always check exception table

2006-11-01T04:16:04+00:00

The alignment exception used to only check the exception table for
-EFAULT, not for other errors. That opens an oops window if we can
coerce the kernel into getting an alignment exception for other reasons
in what would normally be a user-protected accessor, which can be done
via some of the futex ops. This fixes it by always checking the
exception tables.

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

[PATCH] pidspace: is_init()

2006-09-29T16:18:12+00:00

This is an updated version of Eric Biederman's is_init() patch.
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/280).  It applies cleanly to 2.6.18-rc3 and
replaces a few more instances of ->pid == 1 with is_init().

Further, is_init() checks pid and thus removes dependency on Eric's other
patches for now.

Eric's original description:

	There are a lot of places in the kernel where we test for init
	because we give it special properties.  Most  significantly init
	must not die.  This results in code all over the kernel test
	->pid == 1.

	Introduce is_init to capture this case.

	With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are
	looking for only the first process on the system, not some other
	process that has pid == 1.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Serge Hallyn 
Cc: Cedric Le Goater 
Cc: 
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras 
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

[PATCH] powerpc: trivial: modify comments to refer to new location of files

2006-02-10T05:53:51+00:00

This patch removes all self references and fixes references to files
in the now defunct arch/ppc64 tree.  I think this accomplises
everything wanted, though there might be a few references I missed.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] ppc: Remove powermac support from ARCH=ppc

2006-01-15T06:30:44+00:00

This makes it possible to build kernels for PReP and/or CHRP
with ARCH=ppc by removing the (non-building) powermac support.
It's now also possible to select PReP and CHRP independently.
Powermac users should now build with ARCH=powerpc instead of
ARCH=ppc.  (This does mean that it is no longer possible to
build a 32-bit kernel for a G5.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] ppc: Fix ARCH=ppc build with xmon

2005-11-08T00:19:48+00:00

xmon() prototype is inconsistent between ARCH=ppc and ARCH=powerpc,
thus causing ARCH=ppc build breakage.

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

[PATCH] ppc32: handle access to non-present IO ports on 8xx

2005-11-07T01:37:12+00:00

This adds exception table entries for I/O instructions on and
changes MachineCheckException() slightly to cover 8xx specifics (on
8xx the MCE can be generated while executing the IO access instruction
itself, which is not the case on PowerMac's, as the comment on traps.c
details).

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] ppc: Fix build warnings in arch/ppc/kernel/traps.c

2005-11-03T05:54:10+00:00

The latest updates to bug.h generate build warnings in traps.c in
arch/ppc.  Fix print format specifiers to account for change of line type
to long from int.

Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: Fix handling of fpscr on 64-bit

2005-10-27T10:48:50+00:00

The recent merge of fpu.S broken the handling of fpscr for
ARCH=powerpc and CONFIG_PPC64=y.  FP registers could be corrupted,
leading to strange random application crashes.

The confusion arises, because the thread_struct has (and requires) a
64-bit area to save the fpscr, because we use load/store double
instructions to get it in to/out of the FPU.  However, only the low
32-bits are actually used, so we want to treat it as a 32-bit quantity
when manipulating its bits to avoid extra load/stores on 32-bit.  This
patch replaces the current definition with a structure of two 32-bit
quantities (pad and val), to clarify things as much as is possible.
The 'val' field is used when manipulating bits, the structure itself
is used when obtaining the address for loading/unloading the value
from the FPU.

While we're at it, consolidate the 4 (!) almost identical versions of
cvt_fd() and cvt_df() (arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S,
arch/ppc64/kernel/misc.S, arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S,
arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S) into a single version in fpu.S.  The
new version takes a pointer to thread_struct and applies the correct
offset itself, rather than a pointer to the fpscr field itself, again
to avoid confusion as to which is the correct field to use.

Finally, this patch makes ARCH=ppc64 also use the consolidated fpu.S
code, which it previously did not.

Built for G5 (ARCH=ppc64 and ARCH=powerpc), 32-bit powermac (ARCH=ppc
and ARCH=powerpc) and Walnut (ARCH=ppc, CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y).
Booted on G5 (ARCH=powerpc) and things which previously fell over no
longer do.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: Merge ppc64 pmc.[ch] with ppc32 perfmon.[ch]

2005-10-20T06:22:24+00:00

This patches the ppc32 and ppc64 versions of the headers and .c files
with helper functions for manipulating the performance counting
hardware.  As a side effect, it removes use of the term "perfmon" from
ppc32, thus avoiding confusion with the unrelated performance counter
interface from HP Labs also called "perfmon".

Built, but not booted, for g5, pSeries, iSeries, and 32-bit Powermac
with both ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc{,64} as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras