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<title>um: Use get_signal() signal_setup_done()</title>
<updated>2014-08-06T11:03:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-06T19:57:10+00:00</published>
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Use the more generic functions get_signal() signal_setup_done()
for signal delivery.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Use the more generic functions get_signal() signal_setup_done()
for signal delivery.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Memory corruption on startup</title>
<updated>2014-04-20T21:57:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Ivanov</name>
<email>antivano@cisco.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-07T18:37:47+00:00</published>
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The reverse case of this race (you must msync before read) is
well known. This is the not so common one.

It can be triggered only on systems which do a lot of task
switching and only at UML startup. If you are starting 200+ UMLs
~ 0.5% will always die without this fix.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;antivano@cisco.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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The reverse case of this race (you must msync before read) is
well known. This is the not so common one.

It can be triggered only on systems which do a lot of task
switching and only at UML startup. If you are starting 200+ UMLs
~ 0.5% will always die without this fix.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;antivano@cisco.com&gt;
[rw: minor whitespace fixes]
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Remove unused declarations from &lt;as-layout.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2013-11-17T10:39:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-12T19:42:27+00:00</published>
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_end is used, but it's already provided by &lt;asm/sections.h&gt;, so use that.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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_end is used, but it's already provided by &lt;asm/sections.h&gt;, so use that.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Make stack trace reliable against kernel mode faults</title>
<updated>2013-11-17T10:27:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-23T15:38:02+00:00</published>
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As UML uses an alternative signal stack we cannot use
the current stack pointer for stack dumping if UML itself
dies by SIGSEGV. To bypass this issue we save regs taken
from mcontext in our segv handler into thread_struct and
use these regs to obtain the stack pointer in show_stack().

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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As UML uses an alternative signal stack we cannot use
the current stack pointer for stack dumping if UML itself
dies by SIGSEGV. To bypass this issue we save regs taken
from mcontext in our segv handler into thread_struct and
use these regs to obtain the stack pointer in show_stack().

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Cleanup SIGTERM handling</title>
<updated>2013-09-07T08:56:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-18T11:30:08+00:00</published>
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Richard reported that some UML processes survive if the UML
main process receives a SIGTERM.
This issue was caused by a wrongly placed signal(SIGTERM, SIG_DFL)
in init_new_thread_signals().
It disabled the UML exit handler accidently for some processes.
The correct solution is to disable the fatal handler for all
UML helper threads/processes.
Such that last_ditch_exit() does not get called multiple times
and all processes can exit due to SIGTERM.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Richard reported that some UML processes survive if the UML
main process receives a SIGTERM.
This issue was caused by a wrongly placed signal(SIGTERM, SIG_DFL)
in init_new_thread_signals().
It disabled the UML exit handler accidently for some processes.
The correct solution is to disable the fatal handler for all
UML helper threads/processes.
Such that last_ditch_exit() does not get called multiple times
and all processes can exit due to SIGTERM.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: ubd: Add REQ_FLUSH suppport</title>
<updated>2013-09-07T08:56:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-18T11:30:06+00:00</published>
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UML's block device driver does not support write barriers,
to support this this patch adds REQ_FLUSH suppport.
Every time the block layer sends a REQ_FLUSH we fsync() now
our backing file to guarantee data consistency.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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UML's block device driver does not support write barriers,
to support this this patch adds REQ_FLUSH suppport.
Every time the block layer sends a REQ_FLUSH we fsync() now
our backing file to guarantee data consistency.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Implement probe_kernel_read()</title>
<updated>2013-09-07T08:38:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-17T16:46:00+00:00</published>
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UML needs it's own probe_kernel_read() to handle kernel
mode faults correctly.
The implementation uses mincore() on the host side to detect
whether a page is owned by the UML kernel process.

This fixes also a possible crash when sysrq-t is used.
Starting with 3.10 sysrq-t calls probe_kernel_read() to
read details from the kernel workers. As kernel worker are
completely async pointers may turn NULL while reading them.

Cc: &lt;stian@nixia.no&gt;
Cc: &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.10.x
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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UML needs it's own probe_kernel_read() to handle kernel
mode faults correctly.
The implementation uses mincore() on the host side to detect
whether a page is owned by the UML kernel process.

This fixes also a possible crash when sysrq-t is used.
Starting with 3.10 sysrq-t calls probe_kernel_read() to
read details from the kernel workers. As kernel worker are
completely async pointers may turn NULL while reading them.

Cc: &lt;stian@nixia.no&gt;
Cc: &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.10.x
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: siginfo cleanup</title>
<updated>2013-07-19T09:31:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-19T09:31:36+00:00</published>
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Currently we use both struct siginfo and siginfo_t.
Let's use struct siginfo internally to avoid ongoing
compiler warning. We are allowed to do so because
struct siginfo and siginfo_t are equivalent.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Currently we use both struct siginfo and siginfo_t.
Let's use struct siginfo internally to avoid ongoing
compiler warning. We are allowed to do so because
struct siginfo and siginfo_t are equivalent.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON</title>
<updated>2013-04-03T11:56:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-10T21:21:01+00:00</published>
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We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout
into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick
any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick,
idle dynticks, full dynticks.

As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions
need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order
to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure.

It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to
that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code
and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now.
So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ.

On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if
CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to
enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default.

But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into
a circular dependency:

1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select
   CONFIG_NO_HZ
2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE

We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it
may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour.

So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option
which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks
(that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code)
and select it from their referring Kconfig.

Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ
to it for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef &lt;gilad@benyossef.com&gt;
Cc: Hakan Akkan &lt;hakanakkan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout
into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick
any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick,
idle dynticks, full dynticks.

As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions
need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order
to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure.

It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to
that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code
and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now.
So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ.

On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if
CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to
enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default.

But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into
a circular dependency:

1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select
   CONFIG_NO_HZ
2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE

We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it
may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour.

So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option
which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks
(that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code)
and select it from their referring Kconfig.

Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ
to it for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef &lt;gilad@benyossef.com&gt;
Cc: Hakan Akkan &lt;hakanakkan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Li Zhong &lt;zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: net: use eth_hw_addr_random() to generate random mac</title>
<updated>2013-01-04T06:37:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@resnulli.us</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-01T03:30:18+00:00</published>
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Also remove unused "mac" from uml_net struct.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Also remove unused "mac" from uml_net struct.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@resnulli.us&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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