linux.git/include/asm-generic, branch v2.6.22-rc2

Merge branch 'audit.b38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current

2007-05-11T16:57:16+00:00

* 'audit.b38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  [PATCH] Abnormal End of Processes
  [PATCH] match audit name data
  [PATCH] complete message queue auditing
  [PATCH] audit inode for all xattr syscalls
  [PATCH] initialize name osid
  [PATCH] audit signal recipients
  [PATCH] add SIGNAL syscall class (v3)
  [PATCH] auditing ptrace

Consolidate asm/poll.h

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

These files are almost all the same.

This patch could be made even simpler if we don't mind POLLREMOVE turning
up in a few architectures that didn't have it previously (which should be
OK as POLLREMOVE is not used anywhere in the current tree).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] add SIGNAL syscall class (v3)

2007-05-11T09:38:25+00:00

Add a syscall class for sending signals.

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Fix misspellings collected by members of KJ list.

2007-05-09T05:14:03+00:00

Fix the misspellings of "propogate", "writting" and (oh, the shame
:-) "kenrel" in the source tree.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

local_t: architecture independent extension

2007-05-08T18:15:20+00:00

This series extena and standardises local_t operations on each architecture,
allowing a rich set of atomic operations to be done on per-cpu data with
minimal performance impact.  On architectures where there seems to be no
difference between the SMP and UP operation (same memory barriers, same
LOCKing), local.h simply includes asm-generic/local.h, which removes
duplicated code from the current kernel tree.

This patch:

local_t: architecture independent extension

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

atomic.h: atomic_add_unless as inline. Remove system.h atomic.h circular dependency

2007-05-08T18:15:20+00:00

atomic_add_unless as inline. Remove system.h atomic.h circular dependency.
I agree (with Andi Kleen) this typeof is not needed and more error
prone. All the original atomic.h code that uses cmpxchg (which includes
the atomic_add_unless) uses defines instead of inline functions,
probably to circumvent a circular dependency between system.h and
atomic.h on powerpc (which my patch addresses). Therefore, it makes
sense to use inline functions that will provide type checking.

atomic_add_unless as inline. Remove system.h atomic.h circular dependency.
Digging into the FRV architecture shows me that it is also affected by
such a circular dependency. Here is the diff applying this against the
rest of my atomic.h patches.

It applies over the atomic.h standardization patches.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

atomic.h: complete atomic_long operations in asm-generic

2007-05-08T18:15:19+00:00

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

move die notifier handling to common code

2007-05-08T18:15:04+00:00

This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code.  Previous
various architectures had exactly the same code for it.  Note that the new
code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to
the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka
sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place)

arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to
arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's
declared and used at.  avr32 used to pass slightly less information through
this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage]
[bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: 
Cc: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] i386: Clean up ELF note generation

2007-05-02T17:27:17+00:00

Three cleanups:

1: ELF notes are never mapped, so there's no need to have any access
flags in their phdr.

2: When generating them from asm, tell the assembler to use a SHT_NOTE
section type.  There doesn't seem to be a way to do this from C.

3: Use ANSI rather than traditional cpp behaviour to stringify the
macro argument.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman

[PATCH] x86: PARAVIRT: add hooks to intercept mm creation and destruction

2007-05-02T17:27:14+00:00

Add hooks to allow a paravirt implementation to track the lifetime of
an mm.  Paravirtualization requires three hooks, but only two are
needed in common code.  They are:

arch_dup_mmap, which is called when a new mmap is created at fork

arch_exit_mmap, which is called when the last process reference to an
  mm is dropped, which typically happens on exit and exec.

The third hook is activate_mm, which is called from the arch-specific
activate_mm() macro/function, and so doesn't need stub versions for
other architectures.  It's called when an mm is first used.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: James Bottomley 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar