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<title>dump_stack: unify debug information printed by show_regs()</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T00:04:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2013-04-30T22:27:17+00:00</published>
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show_regs() is inherently arch-dependent but it does make sense to print
generic debug information and some archs already do albeit in slightly
different forms.  This patch introduces a generic function to print debug
information from show_regs() so that different archs print out the same
information and it's much easier to modify what's printed.

show_regs_print_info() prints out the same debug info as dump_stack()
does plus task and thread_info pointers.

* Archs which didn't print debug info now do.

  alpha, arc, blackfin, c6x, cris, frv, h8300, hexagon, ia64, m32r,
  metag, microblaze, mn10300, openrisc, parisc, score, sh64, sparc,
  um, xtensa

* Already prints debug info.  Replaced with show_regs_print_info().
  The printed information is superset of what used to be there.

  arm, arm64, avr32, mips, powerpc, sh32, tile, unicore32, x86

* s390 is special in that it used to print arch-specific information
  along with generic debug info.  Heiko and Martin think that the
  arch-specific extra isn't worth keeping s390 specfic implementation.
  Converted to use the generic version.

Note that now all archs print the debug info before actual register
dumps.

An example BUG() dump follows.

 kernel BUG at /work/os/work/kernel/workqueue.c:4841!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #7
 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011  10/26/2007
 task: ffff88007c85e040 ti: ffff88007c860000 task.ti: ffff88007c860000
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff8234a07e&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff8234a07e&gt;] init_workqueues+0x4/0x6
 RSP: 0000:ffff88007c861ec8  EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: ffff88007c861fd8 RBX: ffffffff824466a8 RCX: 0000000000000001
 RDX: 0000000000000046 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffff8234a07a
 RBP: ffff88007c861ec8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff8234a07a
 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
 CR2: ffff88015f7ff000 CR3: 00000000021f1000 CR4: 00000000000007f0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Stack:
  ffff88007c861ef8 ffffffff81000312 ffffffff824466a8 ffff88007c85e650
  0000000000000003 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861f38 ffffffff82335e5d
  ffff88007c862080 ffffffff8223d8c0 ffff88007c862080 ffffffff81c47760
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff81000312&gt;] do_one_initcall+0x122/0x170
  [&lt;ffffffff82335e5d&gt;] kernel_init_freeable+0x9b/0x1c8
  [&lt;ffffffff81c47760&gt;] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
  [&lt;ffffffff81c4776e&gt;] kernel_init+0xe/0xf0
  [&lt;ffffffff81c6be9c&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff81c47760&gt;] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
  ...

v2: Typo fix in x86-32.

v3: CPU number dropped from show_regs_print_info() as
    dump_stack_print_info() has been updated to print it.  s390
    specific implementation dropped as requested by s390 maintainers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;		[tile bits]
Acked-by: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;		[hexagon bits]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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show_regs() is inherently arch-dependent but it does make sense to print
generic debug information and some archs already do albeit in slightly
different forms.  This patch introduces a generic function to print debug
information from show_regs() so that different archs print out the same
information and it's much easier to modify what's printed.

show_regs_print_info() prints out the same debug info as dump_stack()
does plus task and thread_info pointers.

* Archs which didn't print debug info now do.

  alpha, arc, blackfin, c6x, cris, frv, h8300, hexagon, ia64, m32r,
  metag, microblaze, mn10300, openrisc, parisc, score, sh64, sparc,
  um, xtensa

* Already prints debug info.  Replaced with show_regs_print_info().
  The printed information is superset of what used to be there.

  arm, arm64, avr32, mips, powerpc, sh32, tile, unicore32, x86

* s390 is special in that it used to print arch-specific information
  along with generic debug info.  Heiko and Martin think that the
  arch-specific extra isn't worth keeping s390 specfic implementation.
  Converted to use the generic version.

Note that now all archs print the debug info before actual register
dumps.

An example BUG() dump follows.

 kernel BUG at /work/os/work/kernel/workqueue.c:4841!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #7
 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011  10/26/2007
 task: ffff88007c85e040 ti: ffff88007c860000 task.ti: ffff88007c860000
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff8234a07e&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff8234a07e&gt;] init_workqueues+0x4/0x6
 RSP: 0000:ffff88007c861ec8  EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: ffff88007c861fd8 RBX: ffffffff824466a8 RCX: 0000000000000001
 RDX: 0000000000000046 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffff8234a07a
 RBP: ffff88007c861ec8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff8234a07a
 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
 CR2: ffff88015f7ff000 CR3: 00000000021f1000 CR4: 00000000000007f0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Stack:
  ffff88007c861ef8 ffffffff81000312 ffffffff824466a8 ffff88007c85e650
  0000000000000003 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861f38 ffffffff82335e5d
  ffff88007c862080 ffffffff8223d8c0 ffff88007c862080 ffffffff81c47760
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff81000312&gt;] do_one_initcall+0x122/0x170
  [&lt;ffffffff82335e5d&gt;] kernel_init_freeable+0x9b/0x1c8
  [&lt;ffffffff81c47760&gt;] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
  [&lt;ffffffff81c4776e&gt;] kernel_init+0xe/0xf0
  [&lt;ffffffff81c6be9c&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff81c47760&gt;] ? rest_init+0x140/0x140
  ...

v2: Typo fix in x86-32.

v3: CPU number dropped from show_regs_print_info() as
    dump_stack_print_info() has been updated to print it.  s390
    specific implementation dropped as requested by s390 maintainers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;		[tile bits]
Acked-by: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;		[hexagon bits]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>unicore: Use generic idle loop</title>
<updated>2013-04-08T15:39:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-21T21:50:02+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Damm &lt;magnus.damm@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130321215235.415426466@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Magnus Damm &lt;magnus.damm@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130321215235.415426466@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>unicore32 idle: delete stray pm_idle comment</title>
<updated>2013-02-18T04:37:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-10T03:47:22+00:00</published>
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as pm_idle() has already been deleted from this code,
the comment was a stray.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
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as pm_idle() has already been deleted from this code,
the comment was a stray.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()</title>
<updated>2012-11-29T04:43:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-23T02:51:14+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)</title>
<updated>2012-11-29T04:43:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-23T02:49:03+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>unicore32: switch to generic kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()</title>
<updated>2012-11-09T09:30:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-13T21:35:21+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-and-Tested-by: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-and-Tested-by: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED and mm-&gt;reserved_vm counter</title>
<updated>2012-10-09T07:22:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
<email>khlebnikov@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-08T23:29:02+00:00</published>
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A long time ago, in v2.4, VM_RESERVED kept swapout process off VMA,
currently it lost original meaning but still has some effects:

 | effect                 | alternative flags
-+------------------------+---------------------------------------------
1| account as reserved_vm | VM_IO
2| skip in core dump      | VM_IO, VM_DONTDUMP
3| do not merge or expand | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP
4| do not mlock           | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP

This patch removes reserved_vm counter from mm_struct.  Seems like nobody
cares about it, it does not exported into userspace directly, it only
reduces total_vm showed in proc.

Thus VM_RESERVED can be replaced with VM_IO or pair VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP.

remap_pfn_range() and io_remap_pfn_range() set VM_IO|VM_DONTEXPAND|VM_DONTDUMP.
remap_vmalloc_range() set VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c fixup]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Carsten Otte &lt;cotte@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kentaro Takeda &lt;takedakn@nttdata.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Matt Helsley &lt;matthltc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venki@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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A long time ago, in v2.4, VM_RESERVED kept swapout process off VMA,
currently it lost original meaning but still has some effects:

 | effect                 | alternative flags
-+------------------------+---------------------------------------------
1| account as reserved_vm | VM_IO
2| skip in core dump      | VM_IO, VM_DONTDUMP
3| do not merge or expand | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP
4| do not mlock           | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP

This patch removes reserved_vm counter from mm_struct.  Seems like nobody
cares about it, it does not exported into userspace directly, it only
reduces total_vm showed in proc.

Thus VM_RESERVED can be replaced with VM_IO or pair VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP.

remap_pfn_range() and io_remap_pfn_range() set VM_IO|VM_DONTEXPAND|VM_DONTDUMP.
remap_vmalloc_range() set VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c fixup]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Carsten Otte &lt;cotte@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kentaro Takeda &lt;takedakn@nttdata.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Matt Helsley &lt;matthltc@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venki@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T22:58:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T22:58:21+00:00</published>
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Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
 "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
  separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
  dependencies.

  I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
  and made sure that they don't break.

  The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
  dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
  optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().

  This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
  asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.

  The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h.  It holds a number of
  low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
  memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
  aren't used in many places (eg.  switch_to()).

  These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:

    (1) asm/barrier.h

        Move memory barriers here.  This already done for MIPS and Alpha.

    (2) asm/switch_to.h

        Move switch_to() and related stuff here.

    (3) asm/exec.h

        Move arch_align_stack() here.  Other process execution related bits
        could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.

    (4) asm/cmpxchg.h

        Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
        frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().

    (5) asm/bug.h

        Move die() and related bits.

    (6) asm/auxvec.h

        Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.

  Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."

Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that.  We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..

* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
  Delete all instances of asm/system.h
  Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
  Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
  Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
  Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
  Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
  Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
  Create asm-generic/barrier.h
  Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
  ...
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Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
 "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
  separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
  dependencies.

  I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
  and made sure that they don't break.

  The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
  dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
  optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().

  This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
  asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.

  The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h.  It holds a number of
  low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
  memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
  aren't used in many places (eg.  switch_to()).

  These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:

    (1) asm/barrier.h

        Move memory barriers here.  This already done for MIPS and Alpha.

    (2) asm/switch_to.h

        Move switch_to() and related stuff here.

    (3) asm/exec.h

        Move arch_align_stack() here.  Other process execution related bits
        could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.

    (4) asm/cmpxchg.h

        Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
        frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().

    (5) asm/bug.h

        Move die() and related bits.

    (6) asm/auxvec.h

        Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.

  Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."

Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that.  We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..

* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
  Delete all instances of asm/system.h
  Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
  Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
  Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
  Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
  Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
  Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
  Create asm-generic/barrier.h
  Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
  ...
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<title>Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T17:30:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guan Xuetao</name>
<email>gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T17:30:03+00:00</published>
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Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32. (Compilation successful)
The implementation details are not changed, but only splitted.
BTW, some codestyles are adjusted.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
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Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32. (Compilation successful)
The implementation details are not changed, but only splitted.
BTW, some codestyles are adjusted.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
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<entry>
<title>coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag</title>
<updated>2012-03-23T23:58:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Baron</name>
<email>jbaron@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-23T22:02:51+00:00</published>
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The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a
qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which
can be quite large.  There are already a number of filter flags in
/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types'
of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this
case).

Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates
the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag.  The flag is used internally by
the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages.  However, it is simple
enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need
for this flag.

The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new
'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags:
'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'.  The core dump filters
continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the
region.

The qemu code which implements this features is at:

  http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch

In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -&gt; 13MB with this
patch.

I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for
security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are
dumped.

This patch:

The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to
indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section.  However, we
can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against
the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from
arch_vma_name().  Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@hack.frob.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a
qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which
can be quite large.  There are already a number of filter flags in
/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types'
of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this
case).

Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates
the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag.  The flag is used internally by
the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages.  However, it is simple
enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need
for this flag.

The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new
'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags:
'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'.  The core dump filters
continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the
region.

The qemu code which implements this features is at:

  http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch

In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -&gt; 13MB with this
patch.

I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for
security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are
dumped.

This patch:

The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to
indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section.  However, we
can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against
the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from
arch_vma_name().  Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@hack.frob.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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