linux.git/arch/um/os-Linux, branch v2.6.22

uml: remove PAGE_SIZE from libc code

2007-06-16T20:16:16+00:00

Distros seem to be removing PAGE_SIZE from asm/page.h.  So, the libc side of
UML should stop using it.

I replace it with UM_KERN_PAGE_SIZE, which is defined to be the same as
PAGE_SIZE on the kernel side of the house.  I could also use getpagesize(),
but it's more important that UML have the same value of PAGE_SIZE everywhere.
It's conceivable that it could be built with a larger PAGE_SIZE, and use of
getpagesize() would break that badly.

PAGE_MASK got the same treatment, as it is closely tied to PAGE_SIZE.

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

uml: improve PTRACE_SYSEMU checking

2007-05-24T03:14:12+00:00

Make the PTRACE_SYSEMU checking more robust.  It will make sure that system
call numbers are reported correctly.  If there is a problem, it will disable
PTRACE_SYSEMU use and use PTRACE_SYSCALL instead.

Thanks to Balaji G for helping reproduce this problem.

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

uml: iRQ stacks

2007-05-11T15:29:34+00:00

Add a separate IRQ stack.  This differs from i386 in having the entire
interrupt run on a separate stack rather than starting on the normal kernel
stack and switching over once some preparation has been done.  The underlying
mechanism, is of course, sigaltstack.

Another difference is that interrupts that happen in userspace are handled on
the normal kernel stack.  These cause a wait wakeup instead of a signal
delivery so there is no point in trying to switch stacks for these.  There's
no other stuff on the stack, so there is no extra stack consumption.

This quirk makes it possible to have the entire interrupt run on a separate
stack - process preemption (and calls to schedule()) happens on a normal
kernel stack.  If we enable CONFIG_PREEMPT, this will need to be rethought.

The IRQ stack for CPU 0 is declared in the same way as the initial kernel
stack.  IRQ stacks for other CPUs will be allocated dynamically.

An extra field was added to the thread_info structure.  When the active
thread_info is copied to the IRQ stack, the real_thread field points back to
the original stack.  This makes it easy to tell where to copy the thread_info
struct back to when the interrupt is finished.  It also serves as a marker of
a nested interrupt.  It is NULL for the first interrupt on the stack, and
non-NULL for any nested interrupts.

Care is taken to behave correctly if a second interrupt comes in when the
thread_info structure is being set up or taken down.  I could just disable
interrupts here, but I don't feel like giving up any of the performance gained
by not flipping signals on and off.

If an interrupt comes in during these critical periods, the handler can't run
because it has no idea what shape the stack is in.  So, it sets a bit for its
signal in a global mask and returns.  The outer handler will deal with this
signal itself.

Atomicity is had with xchg.  A nested interrupt that needs to bail out will
xchg its signal mask into pending_mask and repeat in case yet another
interrupt hit at the same time, until the mask stabilizes.

The outermost interrupt will set up the thread_info and xchg a zero into
pending_mask when it is done.  At this point, nested interrupts will look at
->real_thread and see that no setup needs to be done.  They can just continue
normally.

Similar care needs to be taken when exiting the outer handler.  If another
interrupt comes in while it is copying the thread_info, it will drop a bit
into pending_mask.  The outer handler will check this and if it is non-zero,
will loop, set up the stack again, and handle the interrupt.

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

uml: tidy IRQ code

2007-05-11T15:29:33+00:00

Some tidying of the irq code before introducing irq stacks.  Mostly
style fixes, but the timer handler calls the timer code directly
rather than going through the generic sig_handler_common_skas.

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

uml: use UM_THREAD_SIZE in userspace code

2007-05-11T15:29:33+00:00

Now that we have UM_THREAD_SIZE, we can replace the calculations in
user-space code (an earlier patch took care of the kernel side of the
house).

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

uml: remove task_protections

2007-05-11T15:29:33+00:00

Replaced task_protections with stack_protections since they do the same
thing, and task_protections was misnamed anyway.

This needs THREAD_SIZE, so that's imported via common-offsets.h

Also tidied up the code in the vicinity.

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

uml: turn build warnings into comments

2007-05-09T19:30:48+00:00

These haven't been fixed for ages.  Just make comments out of them.

arch/um/kernel/skas/process.c:181:2: warning: #warning Need to look up
+userspace_pid by cpu
arch/um/kernel/skas/process.c:187:2: warning: #warning Need to look up
+userspace_pid by cpu
arch/um/kernel/skas/process.c:194:2: warning: #warning need to loop over
+userspace_pids in kill_off_processes_skas

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

uml: mark a tt-only function

2007-05-09T19:30:48+00:00

Mark another function as tt-mode only.

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

uml: more page fault path trimming

2007-05-07T19:13:04+00:00

More trimming of the page fault path.

Permissions are passed around in a single int rather than one bit per
int.  The permission values are copied from libc so that they can be
passed to mmap and mprotect without any further conversion.

The register sets used by do_syscall_stub and copy_context_skas0 are
initialized once, at boot time, rather than once per call.

wait_stub_done checks whether it is getting the signals it expects by
comparing the wait status to a mask containing bits for the signals of
interest rather than comparing individually to the signal numbers.  It
also has one check for a wait failure instead of two.  The caller is
expected to do the initial continue of the stub.  This gets rid of an
argument and some logic.  The fname argument is gone, as that can be
had from a stack trace.

user_signal() is collapsed into userspace() as it is basically one or
two lines of code afterwards.

The physical memory remapping stuff is gone, as it is unused.

flush_tlb_page is inlined.

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

uml: speed page fault path

2007-05-07T19:13:04+00:00

Give the page fault code a specialized path.  There is only one page to look
at, so there's no point in going into the general page table walking code.
There's only going to be one host operation, so there are no opportunities for
merging.  So, we go straight to the pte we want, figure out what needs doing,
and do it.

While I was in here, I fixed the wart where the address passed to unmap was a
void *, but an unsigned long to map and protect.

This gives me just under 10% on a kernel build.

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