linux.git/arch/um/kernel/process.c, branch v2.6.33

uml: convert to seq_file/proc_fops

2009-12-15T16:53:25+00:00

Convert code away from ->read_proc/->write_proc interfaces.  Switch to
proc_create()/proc_create_data() which make addition of proc entries
reliable wrt NULL ->proc_fops, NULL ->data and so on.

Problem with ->read_proc et al is described here commit
786d7e1612f0b0adb6046f19b906609e4fe8b1ba "Fix rmmod/read/write races in
/proc entries"

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Simplify copy_thread()

2009-04-03T02:04:51+00:00

First argument unused since 2.3.11.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nohz: prevent tick stop outside of the idle loop

2008-07-18T16:10:28+00:00

Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing
problem in the NOHZ code:

	scheduler switch to idle task
	enable interrupts

Window starts here

	----> interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED)
	      	irq_exit() stops the tick

	----> interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED)

	return from schedule()
	
	cpu_idle(): preempt_disable();

Window ends here

The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The
first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to
rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick
disabled.

The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set
NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly
hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric.

Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure
that we can not run into such a situation ever again.

cpu_idle()
{
	preempt_disable();

	while(1) {
		 tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); <- tell NOHZ code that we
		 			          are in the idle loop

		 while (!need_resched())
		       halt();

		 tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); <- disables NOHZ mode
		 preempt_enable_no_resched();
		 schedule();
		 preempt_disable();
	}
}

In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ... 

/me grabs a large brown paperbag.

Debugged-by: Jack Ren , 
Debugged-by: eric miao 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

proc: remove proc_root from drivers

2008-04-29T15:06:18+00:00

Remove proc_root export.  Creation and removal works well if parent PDE is
supplied as NULL -- it worked always that way.

So, one useless export removed and consistency added, some drivers created
PDEs with &proc_root as parent but removed them as NULL and so on.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: add declaration of sched_tail to sched.h

2008-02-25T15:34:17+00:00

Avoids sparse warnings:
kernel/sched.c:2170:17: warning: symbol 'schedule_tail' was not declared. Should it be static?

Avoids the need for an external declaration in arch/um/process.c

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

aout: suppress A.OUT library support if !CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT

2008-02-08T17:22:30+00:00

Suppress A.OUT library support if CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT is not set.

Not all architectures support the A.OUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt should not
be permitted to go looking for A.OUT libraries to load in such a case.  Not
only that, but under such conditions A.OUT core dumps are not produced either.

To make this work, this patch also does the following:

 (1) Makes the existence of the contents of linux/a.out.h contingent on
     CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT.

 (2) Renames dump_thread() to aout_dump_thread() as it's only called by A.OUT
     core dumping code.

 (3) Moves aout_dump_thread() into asm/a.out-core.h and makes it inline.  This
     is then included only where needed.  This means that this bit of arch
     code will be stored in the appropriate A.OUT binfmt module rather than
     the core kernel.

 (4) Drops A.OUT support for Blackfin (according to Mike Frysinger it's not
     needed) and FRV.

This patch depends on the previous patch to move STACK_TOP[_MAX] out of
asm/a.out.h and into asm/processor.h as they're required whether or not A.OUT
format is available.

[jdike@addtoit.com: uml: re-remove accidentally restored code]
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: style fixes in arch/um/kernel

2008-02-05T17:44:30+00:00

Joe Perches noticed some printks in smp.c that needed fixing.

While I was in there, I did the usual tidying in arch/um/kernel, which
should be fairly style-clean at this point:
	copyright updates
	emacs formatting comments removal
	include tidying
	style fixes

Cc: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: remove duplicate config symbol and unused file and variables

2008-02-05T17:44:29+00:00

Fix the repetition of the NET symbol.  It was once in UML specific options and
once in networking.  I removed the first occurrence, as it makes more sense to
me to keep it only in networking.

It also removes a mostly empty file which is not used anymore and some
unused variables.

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

uml: use ptrace directly in libc code

2008-02-05T17:44:28+00:00

Some register accessor cleanups -
	userspace() was calling restore_registers and save_registers for no
reason, since userspace() is on the libc side of the house, and these
add no value over calling ptrace directly
	init_thread_registers and get_safe_registers were the same thing,
so init_thread_registers is gone

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

uml: current.h cleanup

2008-02-05T17:44:28+00:00

Tidy current-related stuff.  There was a comment in current.h saying
that current_thread was obsolete, so this patch turns all instances of
current_thread into current_thread_info().  There's some simplifying
of the result in arch/um/sys-i386/signal.c.

current.h and thread_info also get style cleanups.

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