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<title>[PATCH] uml: implement {get,set}_thread_area for i386</title>
<updated>2006-03-31T20:18:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso</name>
<email>blaisorblade@yahoo.it</email>
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<published>2006-03-31T10:30:22+00:00</published>
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Implement sys_[gs]et_thread_area and the corresponding ptrace operations for
UML.  This is the main chunk, additional parts follow.  This implementation is
now well tested and has run reliably for some time, and we've understood all
the previously existing problems.

Their implementation saves the new GDT content and then forwards the call to
the host when appropriate, i.e.  immediately when the target process is
running or on context switch otherwise (i.e.  on fork and on ptrace() calls).

In SKAS mode, we must switch registers on each context switch (because SKAS
does not switches tls_array together with current-&gt;mm).

Also, added get_cpu() locking; this has been done for SKAS mode, since TT does
not need it (it does not use smp_processor_id()).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Implement sys_[gs]et_thread_area and the corresponding ptrace operations for
UML.  This is the main chunk, additional parts follow.  This implementation is
now well tested and has run reliably for some time, and we've understood all
the previously existing problems.

Their implementation saves the new GDT content and then forwards the call to
the host when appropriate, i.e.  immediately when the target process is
running or on context switch otherwise (i.e.  on fork and on ptrace() calls).

In SKAS mode, we must switch registers on each context switch (because SKAS
does not switches tls_array together with current-&gt;mm).

Also, added get_cpu() locking; this has been done for SKAS mode, since TT does
not need it (it does not use smp_processor_id()).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] uml: idle thread needn't take access to init_mm</title>
<updated>2006-03-31T20:18:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso</name>
<email>blaisorblade@yahoo.it</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-31T10:30:18+00:00</published>
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Comparing this code which is the actual body of the arch-independent
cpu_idle(), it is clear that it's unnecessary to set -&gt;mm and -&gt;active_mm;
beyond that, a kernel thread is not supposed to have -&gt;mm != NULL, only
active_mm.

This showed up because I used the assumption (which is IMHO valid) that kernel
thread have their -&gt;mm == NULL, and it failed for this thread.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Comparing this code which is the actual body of the arch-independent
cpu_idle(), it is clear that it's unnecessary to set -&gt;mm and -&gt;active_mm;
beyond that, a kernel thread is not supposed to have -&gt;mm != NULL, only
active_mm.

This showed up because I used the assumption (which is IMHO valid) that kernel
thread have their -&gt;mm == NULL, and it failed for this thread.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] uml: sparse cleanups</title>
<updated>2006-03-31T20:18:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2006-03-31T10:30:15+00:00</published>
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misc sparse annotations

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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misc sparse annotations

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] uml: avoid malloc to sleep in atomic sections</title>
<updated>2006-01-19T03:20:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso</name>
<email>blaisorblade@yahoo.it</email>
</author>
<published>2006-01-19T01:42:58+00:00</published>
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Ugly trick to help make malloc not sleeping - we can't do anything else.  But
this is not yet optimal, since spinlock don't trigger in_atomic() when
preemption is disabled.

Also, even if ugly, this was already used in one place, and was even more
bogus.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Ugly trick to help make malloc not sleeping - we can't do anything else.  But
this is not yet optimal, since spinlock don't trigger in_atomic() when
preemption is disabled.

Also, even if ugly, this was already used in one place, and was even more
bogus.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] uml: move libc-dependent time code</title>
<updated>2006-01-19T03:20:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gennady Sharapov</name>
<email>Gennady.V.Sharapov@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-01-19T01:42:42+00:00</published>
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The serial UML OS-abstraction layer patch (um/kernel dir).

This moves all systemcalls from time.c file under os-Linux dir and joins
time.c and tine_kernel.c files

Signed-off-by: Gennady Sharapov &lt;Gennady.V.Sharapov@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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The serial UML OS-abstraction layer patch (um/kernel dir).

This moves all systemcalls from time.c file under os-Linux dir and joins
time.c and tine_kernel.c files

Signed-off-by: Gennady Sharapov &lt;Gennady.V.Sharapov@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] uml: task_thread_info()</title>
<updated>2006-01-12T17:08:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ftp.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2006-01-12T09:05:48+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] uml: move libc-dependent code from signal_user.c</title>
<updated>2006-01-09T04:13:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gennady Sharapov</name>
<email>Gennady.V.Sharapov@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-01-08T09:01:29+00:00</published>
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The serial UML OS-abstraction layer patch (um/kernel dir).

This moves all systemcalls from signal_user.c file under os-Linux dir

Signed-off-by: Gennady Sharapov &lt;Gennady.V.Sharapov@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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The serial UML OS-abstraction layer patch (um/kernel dir).

This moves all systemcalls from signal_user.c file under os-Linux dir

Signed-off-by: Gennady Sharapov &lt;Gennady.V.Sharapov@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] uml: separate libc-dependent umid code</title>
<updated>2006-01-06T16:33:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Dike</name>
<email>jdike@addtoit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-01-06T08:18:59+00:00</published>
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I reworked Gennady's umid OS abstraction patch because the code shouldn't
be moved entirely to os.  As it turns out, I moved most of it anyway.  This
patch is the minimal one needed to move the code and have it work.
It turns out that the concept of the umid is OS-independent, but
almost everything else about the implementation is OS-dependent.

This is code movement without cleanup - a follow-on patch tidies
everything up without shuffling code around.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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I reworked Gennady's umid OS abstraction patch because the code shouldn't
be moved entirely to os.  As it turns out, I moved most of it anyway.  This
patch is the minimal one needed to move the code and have it work.
It turns out that the concept of the umid is OS-independent, but
almost everything else about the implementation is OS-dependent.

This is code movement without cleanup - a follow-on patch tidies
everything up without shuffling code around.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] mm: uml pte atomicity</title>
<updated>2005-10-30T04:40:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hugh@veritas.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-10-30T01:16:38+00:00</published>
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There's usually a good reason when a pte is examined without the lock; but it
makes me nervous when the pointer is dereferenced more than once.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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There's usually a good reason when a pte is examined without the lock; but it
makes me nervous when the pointer is dereferenced more than once.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] gfp_t: remaining bits of arch/*</title>
<updated>2005-10-28T15:16:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2005-10-21T07:22:24+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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