- 23 2月, 2012 16 次提交
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由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于
Remove the phyp assisted dump implementation which is not is use. Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于
If dump is active during system reboot, shutdown or halt then invalidate the fadump registration as it does not get invalidated automatically. Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于
This patch introduces an sysfs interface '/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem' to invalidate the last fadump registration, invalidate '/proc/vmcore', release the reserved memory for general use and re-register for future kernel dump. Once the dump is copied to the disk, unlike phyp dump, the userspace tool can release all the memory reserved for dump with one single operation of echo 1 to '/sys/kernel/fadump_release_mem'. Release the reserved memory region excluding the size of the memory required for future kernel dump registration. And therefore, unlike kdump, Fadump doesn't need a 2nd reboot to get back the system to the production configuration. Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于
With the firmware-assisted dump support we don't require a reboot when we are in second kernel after crash. The second kernel after crash is a normal kernel boot and has knowledge about entire system RAM with the page tables initialized for entire system RAM. Hence once the dump is saved to disk, we can just release the reserved memory area for general use and continue with second kernel as production kernel. Hence when we release the reserved memory that contains dump data, the '/proc/vmcore' will not be valid anymore. Hence this patch introduces a cleanup routine that invalidates and removes the /proc/vmcore file. This routine will be invoked before we release the reserved dump memory area. Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于
Introduce a PT_NOTE program header that points to physical address of vmcoreinfo_note buffer declared in kernel/kexec.c. The vmcoreinfo note buffer is populated during crash_fadump() at the time of system crash. Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于
When registered for firmware assisted dump on powerpc, firmware preserves the registers for the active CPUs during a system crash. This patch reads the cpu register data stored in Firmware-assisted dump format (except for crashing cpu) and converts it into elf notes and updates the PT_NOTE program header accordingly. The exact register state for crashing cpu is saved to fadump crash info structure in scratch area during crash_fadump() and read during second kernel boot. Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于
Build the crash memory range list by traversing through system memory during the first kernel before we register for firmware-assisted dump. After the successful dump registration, initialize the elfcore header and populate PT_LOAD program headers with crash memory ranges. The elfcore header is saved in the scratch area within the reserved memory. The scratch area starts at the end of the memory reserved for saving RMR region contents. The scratch area contains fadump crash info structure that contains magic number for fadump validation and physical address where the eflcore header can be found. This structure will also be used to pass some important crash info data to the second kernel which will help second kernel to populate ELF core header with correct data before it gets exported through /proc/vmcore. Since the firmware preserves the entire partition memory at the time of crash the contents of the scratch area will be preserved till second kernel boot. Since the memory dump exported through /proc/vmcore is in ELF format similar to kdump, it will help us to reuse the kdump infrastructure for dump capture and filtering. Unlike phyp dump, userspace tool does not need to refer any sysfs interface while reading /proc/vmcore. NOTE: The current design implementation does not address a possibility of introducing additional fields (in future) to this structure without affecting compatibility. It's on TODO list to come up with better approach to address this. Reserved dump area start => +-------------------------------------+ | CPU state dump data | +-------------------------------------+ | HPTE region data | +-------------------------------------+ | RMR region data | Scratch area start => +-------------------------------------+ | fadump crash info structure { | | magic nummber | +------|---- elfcorehdr_addr | | | } | +----> +-------------------------------------+ | ELF core header | Reserved dump area end => +-------------------------------------+ Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于
On 2012-02-20 11:02:51 Mon, Paul Mackerras wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:44:30PM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote: > > If I have read the code correctly, we are going to get this printk on > non-pSeries machines or on older pSeries machines, even if the user > has not put the fadump=on option on the kernel command line. The > printk will be annoying since there is no actual error condition. It > seems to me that the condition for the printk should include > fw_dump.fadump_enabled. In other words you should probably add > > if (!fw_dump.fadump_enabled) > return 0; > > at the beginning of the function. Hi Paul, Thanks for pointing it out. Please find the updated patch below. The existing patches above this (4/10 through 10/10) cleanly applies on this update. Thanks, -Mahesh. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于
Reserve the memory during early boot to preserve CPU state data, HPTE region and RMA (real mode area) region data in case of kernel crash. At the time of crash, powerpc firmware will store CPU state data, HPTE region data and move RMA region data to the reserved memory area. If the firmware-assisted dump fails to reserve the memory, then fallback to existing kexec-based kdump. Most of the code implementation to reserve memory has been adapted from phyp assisted dump implementation written by Linas Vepstas and Manish Ahuja This patch also introduces a config option CONFIG_FA_DUMP for firmware assisted dump feature on Powerpc (ppc64) architecture. Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Mahesh Salgaonkar 提交于
Documentation for firmware-assisted dump. This document is based on the original documentation written for phyp assisted dump by Linas Vepstas and Manish Ahuja, with few changes to reflect the current implementation. Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Kyle Moffett 提交于
There are two separate flags controlling whether or not the MPIC is reset during initialization, which is completely unnecessary, and only one of them can be specified in the device tree. Also, most platforms in-tree right now do actually want to reset the MPIC during initialization anyways, which means lots of duplicate code passing the MPIC_WANTS_RESET flag. Fix all of the callers which currently do not pass the MPIC_WANTS_RESET flag to pass the MPIC_NO_RESET flag, then remove the MPIC_WANTS_RESET flag and make the code reset the MPIC by default. Signed-off-by: NKyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Kyle Moffett 提交于
The FreeScale PowerQUICC-III-compatible (mpc85xx/mpc86xx) MPICs do not correctly report the number of hardware interrupt sources, so software needs to override the detected value with "256". To avoid needing to write custom board-specific code to detect that scenario, allow it to be easily overridden in the device-tree. Signed-off-by: NKyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Kyle Moffett 提交于
The mpic->irq_count variable is only used as a software error-checking limit to determine whether or not an IRQ number is valid. In board code which does not manually specify an IRQ count to mpic_alloc(), i.e. 0, it is automatically detected from the number of ISUs and the ISU size. In practice, all hardware ends up with irq_count == num_sources, so all of the runtime checks on mpic->irq_count should just check the value of mpic->num_sources instead. When platform hardware does not correctly report the number of IRQs, which only happens on the MPC85xx/MPC86xx, the MPIC_BROKEN_FRR_NIRQS flag is used to override the detected value of num_sources with the manual irq_count parameter. Since there's no need to manually specify the number of IRQs except in this case, the extra flag can be eliminated and the test changed to "irq_count != 0". Signed-off-by: NKyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Kyle Moffett 提交于
The Freescale MPIC (and perhaps others in the future) is incapable of routing non-IPI interrupts to more than once CPU at a time. Currently all of the Freescale boards msut pass the MPIC_SINGLE_DEST_CPU flag to mpic_alloc(), but that information should really be present in the device-tree. Older board code can't rely on the device-tree having the property set, but newer platforms won't need it manually specified in the code. [BenH: Remove unrelated changes, folded in a different patch] Signed-off-by: NKyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Kyle Moffett 提交于
The MPIC code checks for a "big-endian" property and sets the flag MPIC_BIG_ENDIAN if one is present, although prior to the "mpic->flags" fixup that would never have worked anways. Unfortunately, even now that it works properly, the Freescale mpic device-node (the "PowerQUICC-III"-compatible one) does not specify it, so all of the board ports need to manually pass it to mpic_alloc(). Document the flag and add it to the pq3 device tree. Existing code will still need to pass the MPIC_BIG_ENDIAN flag because their dtb may not have this property, but new platforms shouldn't need to do so. Signed-off-by: NKyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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由 Kyle Moffett 提交于
The mpic_alloc() function takes a "flags" parameter and assigns it into the mpic->flags variable fairly early on, but several later pieces of code detect various device-tree properties and save them into the "mpic->flags" variable (EG: "big-endian" => MPIC_BIG_ENDIAN). Unfortunately, a number of codepaths (including several which test the flag MPIC_BIG_ENDIAN!) test "flags" instead of "mpic->flags", and get wrong answers as a result. Consolidate the device-tree flag tests early in mpic_alloc() and change all of the checks after "mpic->flags" is init'ed to use "mpic->flags". [BenH: Fixed up use of mpic->node before it's initialized] Signed-off-by: NKyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 21 2月, 2012 7 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
(And define it properly for x86-32, which had its 'current_task' declaration in separate from x86-64) Bitten by my dislike for modules on the machines I use, and the fact that apparently nobody else actually wanted to test the patches I sent out. Snif. Nobody else cares. Anyway, we probably should uninline the 'kernel_fpu_begin()' function that is what modules actually use and that references this, but this is the minimal fix for now. Reported-by: NJosh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Reported-and-tested-by: NJongman Heo <jongman.heo@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Assorted fixes, sat in -next for a week or so... * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: ocfs2: deal with wraparounds of i_nlink in ocfs2_rename() vfs: fix compat_sys_stat() handling of overflows in st_nlink quota: Fix deadlock with suspend and quotas vfs: Provide function to get superblock and wait for it to thaw vfs: fix panic in __d_lookup() with high dentry hashtable counts autofs4 - fix lockdep splat in autofs vfs: fix d_inode_lookup() dentry ref leak
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: [S390] correct ktime to tod clock comparator conversion [S390] 3215 deadlock with tty_wakeup [S390] incorrect PageTables counter for kvm page tables [S390] idle: avoid RCU usage in extended quiescent state
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: digsig: changed type of the timestamp
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
This makes us recognize when we try to restore FPU state that matches what we already have in the FPU on this CPU, and avoids the restore entirely if so. To do this, we add two new data fields: - a percpu 'fpu_owner_task' variable that gets written any time we update the "has_fpu" field, and thus acts as a kind of back-pointer to the task that owns the CPU. The exception is when we save the FPU state as part of a context switch - if the save can keep the FPU state around, we leave the 'fpu_owner_task' variable pointing at the task whose FP state still remains on the CPU. - a per-thread 'last_cpu' field, that indicates which CPU that thread used its FPU on last. We update this on every context switch (writing an invalid CPU number if the last context switch didn't leave the FPU in a lazily usable state), so we know that *that* thread has done nothing else with the FPU since. These two fields together can be used when next switching back to the task to see if the CPU still matches: if 'fpu_owner_task' matches the task we are switching to, we know that no other task (or kernel FPU usage) touched the FPU on this CPU in the meantime, and if the current CPU number matches the 'last_cpu' field, we know that this thread did no other FP work on any other CPU, so the FPU state on the CPU must match what was saved on last context switch. In that case, we can avoid the 'f[x]rstor' entirely, and just clear the CR0.TS bit. Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
This inlines what is usually just a couple of instructions, but more importantly it also fixes the theoretical error case (can that FPU restore really ever fail? Maybe we should remove the checking). We can't start sending signals from within the scheduler, we're much too deep in the kernel and are holding the runqueue lock etc. So don't bother even trying. Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
This makes sure we clear the FPU usage counter for newly created tasks, just so that we start off in a known state (for example, don't try to preload the FPU state on the first task switch etc). It also fixes a thinko in when we increment the fpu_counter at task switch time, introduced by commit 34ddc81a ("i387: re-introduce FPU state preloading at context switch time"). We should increment the *new* task fpu_counter, not the old task, and only if we decide to use that state (whether lazily or preloaded). Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 20 2月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Dmitry Kasatkin 提交于
time_t was used in the signature and key packet headers, which is typedef of long and is different on 32 and 64 bit architectures. Signature and key format should be independent of architecture. Similar to GPG, I have changed the type to uint32_t. Signed-off-by: NDmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 19 2月, 2012 12 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
These are the bug fixes that have accumulated since 3.3-rc3 in arm-soc. The majority of them are regression fixes for stuff that broke during the merge 3.3 window. The notable ones are: * The at91 ata drivers both broke because of an earlier cleanup patch that some other patches were based on. Jean-Christophe decided to remove the legacy at91_ide driver and fix the new-style at91-pata driver while keeping the cleanup patch. I almost rejected the patches for being too late and too big but in the end decided to accept them because they fix a regression. * A patch fixing build breakage from the sysdev-to-device conversion colliding with other changes touches a number of mach-s3c files. * b0654037 "ARM: orion: Fix Orion5x GPIO regression from MPP cleanup" is a mechanical change that unfortunately touches a lot of lines that should up in the diffstat. * tag 'fixes-3.3-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (28 commits) ARM: at91: drop ide driver in favor of the pata one pata/at91: use newly introduced SMC accessors ARM: at91: add accessor to manage SMC ARM: at91:rtc/rtc-at91sam9: ioremap register bank ARM: at91: USB AT91 gadget registration for module ep93xx: fix build of vision_ep93xx.c ARM: OMAP2xxx: PM: fix OMAP2xxx-specific UART idle bug in v3.3 ARM: orion: Fix USB phy for orion5x. ARM: orion: Fix Orion5x GPIO regression from MPP cleanup ARM: EXYNOS: Add cpu-offset property in gic device tree node ARM: EXYNOS: Bring exynos4-dt up to date ARM: OMAP3: cm-t35: fix section mismatch warning ARM: OMAP2: Fix the OMAP2 only build break seen with 2011+ ARM tool-chains ARM: tegra: paz00: fix wrong UART port on mini-pcie plug ARM: tegra: paz00: fix wrong SD1 power gpio i2c: tegra: Add devexit_p() for remove ARM: EXYNOS: Correct M-5MOLS sensor clock frequency on Universal C210 board ARM: EXYNOS: Correct framebuffer window size on Nuri board ARM: SAMSUNG: Fix missing api-change from subsys_interface change ARM: EXYNOS: Fix "warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type" ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
1) VETH_INFO_PEER netlink attribute needs to have it's size validated, from Thomas Graf. 2) 'poll' module option of bnx2x driver crashes the machine, just remove it. From Michal Schmidt. 3) ks8851_mll driver reads the irq number from two places, but only initializes one of them, oops. Use only one location and fix this problem, from Jan Weitzel. 4) Fix buffer overrun and unicast sterring bugs in mellanox mlx4 driver, from Eugenia Emantayev. 5) Swapped kcalloc() args in RxRPC and mlx4, from Axel Lin. 6) PHY MDIO device name regression fixes from Florian Fainelli. 7) If the wake event IRQ line is different from the netdevice one, we have to properly route it to the stmmac interrupt handler. From Francesco Virlinzi. 8) Fix rwlock lock initialization ordering bug in mac80211, from Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan. 9) TCP lost_cnt can get out of sync, and in fact go negative, in certain circumstances. Fix the way we specify what sequence range to operate on in tcp_sacktag_one() to fix this bug. From Neal Cardwell. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (27 commits) net/ethernet: ks8851_mll fix irq handling veth: Enforce minimum size of VETH_INFO_PEER stmmac: update the driver version to Feb 2012 (v2) stmmac: move hw init in the probe (v2) stmmac: request_irq when use an ext wake irq line (v2) stmmac: do not discard frame on dribbling bit assert ipheth: Add iPhone 4S mlx4: add unicast steering entries to resource_tracker mlx4: fix QP tree trashing mlx4: fix buffer overrun 3c59x: shorten timer period for slave devices netpoll: netpoll_poll_dev() should access dev->flags RxRPC: Fix kcalloc parameters swapped bnx2x: remove the 'poll' module option tcp: fix tcp_shifted_skb() adjustment of lost_cnt_hint for FACK ks8851: Fix NOHZ local_softirq_pending 08 warning bnx2x: fix bnx2x_storm_stats_update() on big endian ixp4xx-eth: fix PHY name to match MDIO bus name octeon: fix PHY name to match MDIO bus name fec: fix PHY name to match fixed MDIO bus name ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Fixes a bootstrapping issue for some registers when a less commonly used method for register cache initialisation is used. Only affects a fairly small proportion of users that both don't use explicit register defaults and do use the cache. * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap: regmap: Fix cache defaults initialization from raw cache defaults
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Merge tag 'ecryptfs-3.3-rc4-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs Fixes maximum filename length and filesystem type reporting in statfs() calls and also fixes stale inode mode bits on eCryptfs inodes after a POSIX ACL was set on the lower filesystem's inode. * tag 'ecryptfs-3.3-rc4-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs: ecryptfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() eCryptfs: Copy up lower inode attrs after setting lower xattr eCryptfs: Improve statfs reporting
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
pinctrl fixes for v3.3 * tag 'pinctrl-for-torvalds-20120216' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl: pinctrl: restore pin naming
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Here are a few more fixes for powerpc. Some are regressions, the rest is simple/obvious/nasty enough that I deemed it good to go now. Here's also step one of deprecating legacy iSeries support: we are removing it from the main defconfig. Nobody seems to be using it anymore and the code is nasty to maintain, (involves horrible hacks in various low level areas of the kernel) so we plan to actually rip it out at some point. For now let's just avoid building it by default. Stephen will proceed to do the actual removal later (probably 3.4 or 3.5). * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc/perf: power_pmu_start restores incorrect values, breaking frequency events powerpc/adb: Use set_current_state() powerpc: Disable interrupts early in Program Check powerpc: Remove legacy iSeries from ppc64_defconfig powerpc/fsl/pci: Fix PCIe fixup regression powerpc: Fix kernel log of oops/panic instruction dump
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
One regression fix for SR-IOV on PPC and a couple of misc fixes from Yinghai. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci: PCI: Fix pci cardbus removal PCI: set pci sriov page size before reading SRIOV BAR PCI: workaround hard-wired bus number V2
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git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
3 radeon fixes, I have some exynos fixes to push later but I'll queue them separately once I've looked them over a bit. * 'drm-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: drm/radeon/kms: fix MSI re-arm on rv370+ drm/radeon/kms/atom: bios scratch reg handling updates drm/radeon/kms: drop lock in return path of radeon_fence_count_emitted.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: crypto: sha512 - use standard ror64()
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
After all the FPU state cleanups and finally finding the problem that caused all our FPU save/restore problems, this re-introduces the preloading of FPU state that was removed in commit b3b0870e ("i387: do not preload FPU state at task switch time"). However, instead of simply reverting the removal, this reimplements preloading with several fixes, most notably - properly abstracted as a true FPU state switch, rather than as open-coded save and restore with various hacks. In particular, implementing it as a proper FPU state switch allows us to optimize the CR0.TS flag accesses: there is no reason to set the TS bit only to then almost immediately clear it again. CR0 accesses are quite slow and expensive, don't flip the bit back and forth for no good reason. - Make sure that the same model works for both x86-32 and x86-64, so that there are no gratuitous differences between the two due to the way they save and restore segment state differently due to architectural differences that really don't matter to the FPU state. - Avoid exposing the "preload" state to the context switch routines, and in particular allow the concept of lazy state restore: if nothing else has used the FPU in the meantime, and the process is still on the same CPU, we can avoid restoring state from memory entirely, just re-expose the state that is still in the FPU unit. That optimized lazy restore isn't actually implemented here, but the infrastructure is set up for it. Of course, older CPU's that use 'fnsave' to save the state cannot take advantage of this, since the state saving also trashes the state. In other words, there is now an actual _design_ to the FPU state saving, rather than just random historical baggage. Hopefully it's easier to follow as a result. Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
This moves the bit that indicates whether a thread has ownership of the FPU from the TS_USEDFPU bit in thread_info->status to a word of its own (called 'has_fpu') in task_struct->thread.has_fpu. This fixes two independent bugs at the same time: - changing 'thread_info->status' from the scheduler causes nasty problems for the other users of that variable, since it is defined to be thread-synchronous (that's what the "TS_" part of the naming was supposed to indicate). So perfectly valid code could (and did) do ti->status |= TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK; and the compiler was free to do that as separate load, or and store instructions. Which can cause problems with preemption, since a task switch could happen in between, and change the TS_USEDFPU bit. The change to TS_USEDFPU would be overwritten by the final store. In practice, this seldom happened, though, because the 'status' field was seldom used more than once, so gcc would generally tend to generate code that used a read-modify-write instruction and thus happened to avoid this problem - RMW instructions are naturally low fat and preemption-safe. - On x86-32, the current_thread_info() pointer would, during interrupts and softirqs, point to a *copy* of the real thread_info, because x86-32 uses %esp to calculate the thread_info address, and thus the separate irq (and softirq) stacks would cause these kinds of odd thread_info copy aliases. This is normally not a problem, since interrupts aren't supposed to look at thread information anyway (what thread is running at interrupt time really isn't very well-defined), but it confused the heck out of irq_fpu_usable() and the code that tried to squirrel away the FPU state. (It also caused untold confusion for us poor kernel developers). It also turns out that using 'task_struct' is actually much more natural for most of the call sites that care about the FPU state, since they tend to work with the task struct for other reasons anyway (ie scheduling). And the FPU data that we are going to save/restore is found there too. Thanks to Arjan Van De Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> for pointing us to the %esp issue. Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Reported-and-tested-by: NRaphael Prevost <raphael@buro.asia> Acked-and-tested-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Tested-by: NPeter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 17 2月, 2012 4 次提交
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
The conversion of the ktime to a value suitable for the clock comparator does not take changes to wall_to_monotonic into account. In fact the conversion just needs the boot clock (sched_clock_base_cc) and the total_sleep_time. This is applicable to 3.2+ kernels. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
The 3215 driver calls tty_wakeup from irq context while holding the device spinlock. If printk is called by any function on the callchain starting from tty_wakeup the system deadlocks on the device spinlock. Using a tasklet to call tty_wakup solves the problem. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
The page_table_free_pgste function is used for kvm processes to free page tables that have the pgste extension. It calls pgtable_page_ctor instead of pgtable_page_dtor which increases NR_PAGETABLE instead of decreasing it. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
Avoid calling wake_up() from our NMI "bottom halve" from RCU extended quiescent state in idle. wake_up() has RCU read-side critical sections but this will be completely ignored by RCU if the cpu is in extended quiescent state. Which means that whatever object is being accessed from within the read-side critical section can be freed concurrently from a different cpu. So make sure we leave extended quiescent state before calling wake_up(). Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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