linux.git/arch/um/kernel/process.c, branch v2.6.23

uml: Eliminate kernel allocator wrappers

2007-07-16T16:05:38+00:00

UML had two wrapper procedures for kmalloc, um_kmalloc and um_kmalloc_atomic
because the flag constants weren't available in userspace code.
kern_constants.h had made kernel constants available for a long time, so there
is no need for these wrappers any more.  Rather, userspace code calls kmalloc
directly with the userspace versions of the gfp flags.

kmalloc isn't a real procedure, so I had to essentially copy the inline
wrapper around __kmalloc.

vmalloc also had its own wrapper for no good reason.  This is now gone.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: kernel_thread shouldn't panic

2007-05-07T19:13:02+00:00

kernel_thread() should just return an error value on do_fork failure, not
panic.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: remove page_size()

2007-05-07T19:13:02+00:00

userspace code used to have to call the kernelspace function page_size() in
order to determine the value of the kernel's PAGE_SIZE.  Since this is now
available directly from kern_constants.h as UM_KERN_PAGE_SIZE, page_size() can
be deleted and calls changed to use the constant.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: tidy process.c

2007-05-07T19:13:02+00:00

Clean up arch/um/kernel/process.c:

- lots of return(x); -> return x; conversions

- a number of the small functions are either unused, in which case they are
  gone, along any declarations in a header, or could be made static.

- current_pid is ifdefed on CONFIG_MODE_TT and its declaration is ifdefed on
  both CONFIG_MODE_TT and UML_CONFIG_MODE_TT because we don't know whether
  it's being used in a userspace or kernel file.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: remove user_util.h

2007-05-07T19:13:01+00:00

user_util.h isn't needed any more, so delete it and remove all includes of it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: create as-layout.h

2007-05-07T19:13:01+00:00

This patch moves all the the symbols defined in um_arch.c, which are mostly
boundaries between different parts of the UML kernel address space, to a new
header, as-layout.h.  There are also a few things here which aren't really
related to address space layout, but which don't really have a better place to
go.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: split memory allocation prototypes out of user.h

2006-10-20T17:26:36+00:00

user.h is too generic a header name.  I've split out allocation routines from
it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: file renaming

2006-09-27T15:26:16+00:00

Move some foo_kern.c files to foo.c now that the old foo.c files are out
of the way.

Also cleaned up some whitespace and an emacs formatting comment.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: move libc-dependent startup and signal code

2005-09-05T07:06:24+00:00

The serial UML OS-abstraction layer patch (um/kernel dir).

This moves all systemcalls from process.c file under os-Linux dir and join
process.c and process_kern.c files.

Signed-off-by: Gennady Sharapov 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: fix TT mode by reverting "use fork instead of clone"

2005-07-29T04:46:03+00:00

With Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 

Revert the following patch, because of miscompilation problems in different
environments leading to UML not working *at all* in TT mode; it was merged
lately in 2.6 development cycle, a little after being written, and has
caused problems to lots of people; I know it's a bit too long, but it
shouldn't have been merged in first place, so I still apply for inclusion
in the -stable tree.  Anyone using this feature currently is either using
some older kernel (some reports even used 2.6.12-rc4-mm2) or using this
patch, as included in my -bs patchset.

For now there's not yet a fix for this patch, so for now the best thing is
to drop it (which was widely reported to give a working kernel, and as such
was even merged in -stable tree).

"Convert the boot-time host ptrace testing from clone to fork.  They were
essentially doing fork anyway.  This cleans up the code a bit, and makes
valgrind a bit happier about grinding it."

URL:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=98fdffccea6cc3fe9dba32c0fcc310bcb5d71529

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds