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<title>arch/tile: handle rt_sigreturn() more cleanly</title>
<updated>2010-12-17T21:59:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
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<published>2010-12-14T21:07:25+00:00</published>
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The current tile rt_sigreturn() syscall pattern uses the common idiom
of loading up pt_regs with all the saved registers from the time of
the signal, then anticipating the fact that we will clobber the ABI
"return value" register (r0) as we return from the syscall by setting
the rt_sigreturn return value to whatever random value was in the pt_regs
for r0.

However, this breaks in our 64-bit kernel when running "compat" tasks,
since we always sign-extend the "return value" register to properly
handle returned pointers that are in the upper 2GB of the 32-bit compat
address space.  Doing this to the sigreturn path then causes occasional
random corruption of the 64-bit r0 register.

Instead, we stop doing the crazy "load the return-value register"
hack in sigreturn.  We already have some sigreturn-specific assembly
code that we use to pass the pt_regs pointer to C code.  We extend that
code to also set the link register to point to a spot a few instructions
after the usual syscall return address so we don't clobber the saved r0.
Now it no longer matters what the rt_sigreturn syscall returns, and the
pt_regs structure can be cleanly and completely reloaded.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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The current tile rt_sigreturn() syscall pattern uses the common idiom
of loading up pt_regs with all the saved registers from the time of
the signal, then anticipating the fact that we will clobber the ABI
"return value" register (r0) as we return from the syscall by setting
the rt_sigreturn return value to whatever random value was in the pt_regs
for r0.

However, this breaks in our 64-bit kernel when running "compat" tasks,
since we always sign-extend the "return value" register to properly
handle returned pointers that are in the upper 2GB of the 32-bit compat
address space.  Doing this to the sigreturn path then causes occasional
random corruption of the 64-bit r0 register.

Instead, we stop doing the crazy "load the return-value register"
hack in sigreturn.  We already have some sigreturn-specific assembly
code that we use to pass the pt_regs pointer to C code.  We extend that
code to also set the link register to point to a spot a few instructions
after the usual syscall return address so we don't clobber the saved r0.
Now it no longer matters what the rt_sigreturn syscall returns, and the
pt_regs structure can be cleanly and completely reloaded.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<title>arch/tile: handle CLONE_SETTLS in copy_thread(), not user space</title>
<updated>2010-12-17T21:56:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-14T20:57:49+00:00</published>
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Previously we were just setting up the "tp" register in the
new task as started by clone() in libc.  However, this is not
quite right, since in principle a signal might be delivered to
the new task before it had its TLS set up.  (Of course, this race
window still exists for resetting the libc getpid() cached value
in the new task, in principle.  But in any case, we are now doing
this exactly the way all other architectures do it.)

This change is important for 2.6.37 since the tile glibc we will
be submitting upstream will not set TLS in user space any more,
so it will only work on a kernel that has this fix.  It should
also be taken for 2.6.36.x in the stable tree if possible.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
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Previously we were just setting up the "tp" register in the
new task as started by clone() in libc.  However, this is not
quite right, since in principle a signal might be delivered to
the new task before it had its TLS set up.  (Of course, this race
window still exists for resetting the libc getpid() cached value
in the new task, in principle.  But in any case, we are now doing
this exactly the way all other architectures do it.)

This change is important for 2.6.37 since the tile glibc we will
be submitting upstream will not set TLS in user space any more,
so it will only work on a kernel that has this fix.  It should
also be taken for 2.6.36.x in the stable tree if possible.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile</title>
<updated>2010-11-24T22:42:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2010-11-24T22:42:32+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  arch/tile: fix memchr() not to dereference memory for zero length
  arch/tile: make glibc's sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) work correctly
  arch/tile: fix rwlock so would-be write lockers don't block new readers
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  arch/tile: fix memchr() not to dereference memory for zero length
  arch/tile: make glibc's sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) work correctly
  arch/tile: fix rwlock so would-be write lockers don't block new readers
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<title>Merge branch 'drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile</title>
<updated>2010-11-24T22:42:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-24T22:42:03+00:00</published>
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* 'drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  pci root complex: support for tile architecture
  drivers/net/tile/: on-chip network drivers for the tile architecture
  MAINTAINERS: add drivers/char/hvc_tile.c as maintained by tile
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* 'drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  pci root complex: support for tile architecture
  drivers/net/tile/: on-chip network drivers for the tile architecture
  MAINTAINERS: add drivers/char/hvc_tile.c as maintained by tile
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<title>arch/tile: fix memchr() not to dereference memory for zero length</title>
<updated>2010-11-24T18:57:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-24T18:57:42+00:00</published>
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This change fixes a bug that memchr() will read the first word
of the source even if the length is zero.  Ironically, the code
was originally written with a test to avoid exactly this problem,
but to make the code conform to Linux coding standards with all
declarations preceding all statements, the first load from memory
was moved up above that test as the initial value for a variable.

The change just moves all the variable declarations to the top
of the file, with no initializers, so that the test can also be
at the top of the file.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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This change fixes a bug that memchr() will read the first word
of the source even if the length is zero.  Ironically, the code
was originally written with a test to avoid exactly this problem,
but to make the code conform to Linux coding standards with all
declarations preceding all statements, the first load from memory
was moved up above that test as the initial value for a variable.

The change just moves all the variable declarations to the top
of the file, with no initializers, so that the test can also be
at the top of the file.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<title>arch/tile: make glibc's sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) work correctly</title>
<updated>2010-11-24T18:42:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-24T18:42:15+00:00</published>
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glibc assumes that it can count /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu* to get
the number of configured cpus.  For this to be valid on tile, we need
to generate a "cpu" entry for all cpus, including the ones that are
not currently allocated for Linux's use.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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glibc assumes that it can count /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu* to get
the number of configured cpus.  For this to be valid on tile, we need
to generate a "cpu" entry for all cpus, including the ones that are
not currently allocated for Linux's use.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'master' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2010-11-24T18:30:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-24T18:30:28+00:00</published>
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<title>pci root complex: support for tile architecture</title>
<updated>2010-11-24T18:13:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
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<published>2010-11-02T16:05:10+00:00</published>
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This change enables PCI root complex support for TILEPro.  Unlike
TILE-Gx, TILEPro has no support for memory-mapped I/O, so the PCI
support consists of hypervisor upcalls for PIO, DMA, etc.  However,
the performance is fine for the devices we have tested with so far
(1Gb Ethernet, SATA, etc.).

The &lt;asm/io.h&gt; header was tweaked to be a little bit more aggressive
about disabling attempts to map/unmap IO port space.  The hacky
&lt;asm/pci-bridge.h&gt; header was rolled into the &lt;asm/pci.h&gt; header
and the result was simplified.  Both of the latter two headers were
preliminary versions not meant for release before now - oh well.

There is one quirk for our TILEmpower platform, which accidentally
negotiates up to 5GT and needs to be kicked down to 2.5GT.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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This change enables PCI root complex support for TILEPro.  Unlike
TILE-Gx, TILEPro has no support for memory-mapped I/O, so the PCI
support consists of hypervisor upcalls for PIO, DMA, etc.  However,
the performance is fine for the devices we have tested with so far
(1Gb Ethernet, SATA, etc.).

The &lt;asm/io.h&gt; header was tweaked to be a little bit more aggressive
about disabling attempts to map/unmap IO port space.  The hacky
&lt;asm/pci-bridge.h&gt; header was rolled into the &lt;asm/pci.h&gt; header
and the result was simplified.  Both of the latter two headers were
preliminary versions not meant for release before now - oh well.

There is one quirk for our TILEmpower platform, which accidentally
negotiates up to 5GT and needs to be kicked down to 2.5GT.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<title>drivers/net/tile/: on-chip network drivers for the tile architecture</title>
<updated>2010-11-24T18:11:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@tilera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-01T21:00:37+00:00</published>
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This change adds the first network driver for the tile architecture,
supporting the on-chip XGBE and GBE shims.

The infrastructure is present for the TILE-Gx networking drivers (another
three source files in the new directory) but for now the the actual
tilegx sources are waiting on releasing hardware to initial customers.

Note that arch/tile/include/hv/* are "upstream" headers from the
Tilera hypervisor and will probably benefit less from LKML review.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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This change adds the first network driver for the tile architecture,
supporting the on-chip XGBE and GBE shims.

The infrastructure is present for the TILE-Gx networking drivers (another
three source files in the new directory) but for now the the actual
tilegx sources are waiting on releasing hardware to initial customers.

Note that arch/tile/include/hv/* are "upstream" headers from the
Tilera hypervisor and will probably benefit less from LKML review.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>BKL: remove extraneous #include &lt;smp_lock.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2010-11-17T16:59:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-17T15:26:55+00:00</published>
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The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.

Remove this too as a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.

Remove this too as a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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