linux.git/arch/um/kernel/process_kern.c, branch v2.6.14

[PATCH] uml: Fix GFP_ flags usage

2005-09-23T05:17:37+00:00

GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_KERNEL is meaningless and won't work.  Actually it never
worked, even in 2.4.

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

[PATCH] uml: breakpoint an arbitrary thread

2005-09-17T18:49:59+00:00

This patch implements a stack trace for a thread, not unlike sysrq-t does.
The advantage to this is that a break point can be placed on showreqs, so that
upon showing the stack, you jump immediately into the debugger.  While sysrq-t
does the same thing, sysrq-t shows *all* threads stacks.  It also doesn't work
right now.  In the future, I thought it might be acceptable to make this show
all pids stacks, but perhaps leaving well enough alone and just using sysrq-t
would be okay.  For now, upon receiving the stack command, UML switches
context to that thread, dumps its registers, and then switches context back to
the original thread.  Since UML compacts all threads into one of 4 host
threads, this sort of mechanism could be expanded in the future to include
other debugging helpers that sysrq does not cover.

Note by jdike - The main benefit to this is that it brings an arbitrary thread
back into context, where it can be examined by gdb.  The fact that it dumps it
stack is secondary.  This provides the capability to examine a sleeping
thread, which has existed in tt mode, but not in skas mode until now.

Also, the other threads, that sysrq doesn't cover, can be gdb-ed directly
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Allan Graves
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: _switch_to code consolidation

2005-09-17T18:49:59+00:00

This patch moves code that is in both switch_to_tt and switch_to_skas to the
top level _switch_to function, keeping us from duplicating code.  It is
required for the stack trace patch to work properly.

Signed-off-by: Allan Graves 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: Clean up prink calls

2005-07-29T04:46:05+00:00

printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant.

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

[PATCH] uml: fix timer initialization

2005-06-25T23:24:35+00:00

In skas mode, the call to uml_idle_timer permanently shut off the virtual
timer, resulting in no timer ticks to anything but the idle thread.  This is
likely the cause of the soft lockups that are seen sporadically in recent
UMLs.

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

[PATCH] uml: fork cleanup

2005-06-25T23:24:35+00:00

Fix the do_fork calling convention: normal arch pass the regs and the new sp
value to do_fork instead of NULL.

Currently the arch-independent code ignores these values, while the UML code
(actually it's copy_thread) gets the right values by itself.

With this patch, things are fixed up.

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

[PATCH] kstrdup: convert a few existing implementations

2005-06-23T16:45:18+00:00

Convert a bunch of strdup() implementations and their callers to the new
kstrdup().  A few remain, for example see sound/core, and there are tons of
open coded strdup()'s around.  Sigh.  But this is a start.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] uml: remove unused code

2005-05-28T23:46:12+00:00

This removes two now unused files and a couple of unused functions.

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

[PATCH] uml: remove 2_5compat.h

2005-05-28T23:46:11+00:00

Remove old useless header that was used in Ye Olde Times during 2.4->2.5
porting to abstract differences.  It's definitions are no more used anyway, so
let's finally kill it.

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

[PATCH] uml: Fix process exit race

2005-05-07T05:09:30+00:00

tt-mode closes switch_pipes in exit_thread_tt and kills processes in
switch_to_tt, if the exit_state is EXIT_DEAD or EXIT_ZOMBIE.

In very rare cases the exiting process can be scheduled out after having set
exit_state and closed switch_pipes (from release_task it calls proc_pid_flush,
which might sleep).  If this process is to be restarted, UML failes in
switch_to_tt with:

   write of switch_pipe failed, err = 9

We fix this by closing switch_pipes not in exit_thread_tt, but later in
release_thread_tt.  Additionally, we set switch_pipe[0] = 0 after closing.
switch_to_tt must not kill "from" process depending on its exit_state, but
must kill it after release_thread was processed only, so it examines
switch_pipe[0] for its decision.

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