We have a comment claiming __switch_to() cares about where cpu_context
is located relative to cpu_domain in thread_info. However arm64 has
never had a thread_info::cpu_domain field, and neither __switch_to nor
cpu_switch_to care where the cpu_context field is relative to others.

Additionally, the init_thread_info alias is never used anywhere in the
kernel, and will shortly become problematic when thread_info is moved
into task_struct.

This patch removes both.
Signed-off-by: NMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: NLaura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

This patch adds support for uprobe on ARM64 architecture.

Unit tests for following have been done so far and they have been found
working
    1. Step-able instructions, like sub, ldr, add etc.
    2. Simulation-able like ret, cbnz, cbz etc.
    3. uretprobe
    4. Reject-able instructions like sev, wfe etc.
    5. trapped and abort xol path
    6. probe at unaligned user address.
    7. longjump test cases

Currently it does not support aarch32 instruction probing.
Signed-off-by: NPratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

A while back we added {read,write}_sysreg accessors to handle accesses
to system registers, without the usual boilerplate asm volatile,
temporary variable, etc.

This patch makes use of these across arm64 to make code shorter and
clearer. For sequences with a trailing ISB, the existing isb() macro is
also used so that asm blocks can be removed entirely.

A few uses of inline assembly for msr/mrs are left as-is. Those
manipulating sp_el0 for the current thread_info value have special
clobber requiremends.
Signed-off-by: NMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

This function was introduced by previous commits implementing UAO.
However, it can be replaced with task_thread_info() in
uao_thread_switch() or get_fs() in do_page_fault() (the latter being
called only on the current context, so no need for using the saved
pt_regs).
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

'User Access Override' is a new ARMv8.2 feature which allows the
unprivileged load and store instructions to be overridden to behave in
the normal way.

This patch converts {get,put}_user() and friends to use ldtr*/sttr*
instructions - so that they can only access EL0 memory, then enables
UAO when fs==KERNEL_DS so that these functions can access kernel memory.

This allows user space's read/write permissions to be checked against the
page tables, instead of testing addr<USER_DS, then using the kernel's
read/write permissions.
Signed-off-by: NJames Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: move uao_thread_switch() above dsb()]
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

There is need for figuring out how to manage struct thread_info data when
IRQ stack is introduced. struct thread_info information should be copied
to IRQ stack under the current thread_info calculation logic whenever
context switching is invoked. This is too expensive to keep supporting
the approach.

Instead, this patch pays attention to sp_el0 which is an unused scratch
register in EL1 context. sp_el0 utilization not only simplifies the
management, but also prevents text section size from being increased
largely due to static allocated IRQ stack as removing masking operation
using THREAD_SIZE in many places.
Reviewed-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

This patch turns on the 16K page support in the kernel. We
support 48bit VA (4 level page tables) and 47bit VA (3 level
page tables).

With 16K we can map 128 entries using contiguous bit hint
at level 3 to map 2M using single TLB entry.

TODO: 16K supports 32 contiguous entries at level 2 to get us
1G(which is not yet supported by the infrastructure). That should
be a separate patch altogether.

Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NSuzuki K. Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: NArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Tested-by: NArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: NMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

We use !CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES for CONFIG_ARM64_4K_PAGES
(and vice versa) in code. It all worked well, so far since
we only had two options. Now, with the introduction of 16K,
these cases will break. This patch cleans up the code to
use the required CONFIG symbol expression without the assumption
that !64K => 4K (and vice versa)

Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: NMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NSuzuki K. Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: NArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Tested-by: NArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

Our current switch_mm implementation suffers from a number of problems:

  (1) The ASID allocator relies on IPIs to synchronise the CPUs on a
      rollover event

  (2) Because of (1), we cannot allocate ASIDs with interrupts disabled
      and therefore make use of a TIF_SWITCH_MM flag to postpone the
      actual switch to finish_arch_post_lock_switch

  (3) We run context switch with a reserved (invalid) TTBR0 value, even
      though the ASID and pgd are updated atomically

  (4) We take a global spinlock (cpu_asid_lock) during context-switch

  (5) We use h/w broadcast TLB operations when they are not required
      (e.g. in flush_context)

This patch addresses these problems by rewriting the ASID algorithm to
match the bitmap-based arch/arm/ implementation more closely. This in
turn allows us to remove much of the complications surrounding switch_mm,
including the ugly thread flag.
Reviewed-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

As execution domain support is gone we can remove
signal translation from the signal code and remove
exec_domain from thread_info.
Signed-off-by: NRichard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

If an attacker can cause a controlled kernel stack overflow, overwriting
the restart block is a very juicy exploit target.  This is because the
restart_block is held in the same memory allocation as the kernel stack.

Moving the restart block to struct task_struct prevents this exploit by
making the restart_block harder to locate.

Note that there are other fields in thread_info that are also easy
targets, at least on some architectures.

It's also a decent simplification, since the restart code is more or less
identical on all architectures.

[james.hogan@imgtec.com: metag: align thread_info::supervisor_stack]
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: NRichard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: NJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Use the global current_stack_pointer to get the value of the stack pointer.
This change supports being able to compile the kernel with both gcc and clang.
Signed-off-by: NBehan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
Signed-off-by: NMark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NJan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: NOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Define a global named register for current_stack_pointer. The use of this new
variable guarantees that both gcc and clang can access this register in C code.
Signed-off-by: NBehan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
Reviewed-by: NJan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: NMark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Make calls to ct_user_enter when the kernel is exited
and ct_user_exit when the kernel is entered (in el0_da,
el0_ia, el0_svc, el0_irq and all of the "error" paths).

These macros expand to function calls which will only work
properly if el0_sync and related code has been rearranged
(in a previous patch of this series).

The calls to ct_user_exit are made after hw debugging has been
enabled (enable_dbg_and_irq).

The call to ct_user_enter is made at the beginning of the
kernel_exit macro.

This patch is based on earlier work by Kevin Hilman.
Save/restore optimizations were also done by Kevin.
Acked-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: NKevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Tested-by: NKevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NLarry Bassel <larry.bassel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NKevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

The only idle method for arm64 is WFI and it therefore
unconditionally requires the reschedule interrupt when idle.
Suggested-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140509170649.GG13658@twins.programming.kicks-ass.netSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Currently syscall_trace() is called only for ptrace.
With additional TIF_xx flags defined, it is now called in all the cases
of audit, ftrace and seccomp in addition to ptrace.
Acked-by: NRichard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

If a task gets scheduled out and back in again and nothing has touched
its FPSIMD state in the mean time, there is really no reason to reload
it from memory. Similarly, repeated calls to kernel_neon_begin() and
kernel_neon_end() will preserve and restore the FPSIMD state every time.

This patch defers the FPSIMD state restore to the last possible moment,
i.e., right before the task returns to userland. If a task does not return to
userland at all (for any reason), the existing FPSIMD state is preserved
and may be reused by the owning task if it gets scheduled in again on the
same CPU.

This patch adds two more functions to abstract away from straight FPSIMD
register file saves and restores:
- fpsimd_restore_current_state -> ensure current's FPSIMD state is loaded
- fpsimd_flush_task_state -> invalidate live copies of a task's FPSIMD state
Signed-off-by: NArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

No point in having this bit defined by architecture.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130917183629.090698799@linutronix.de

Written by Catalin Marinas, tested by APM on storm platform. This is needed
because of the failures encountered when running SpecWeb benchmark test.
Signed-off-by: NFeng Kan <fkan@apm.com>
Acked-by: NKumar Sankaran <ksankaran@apm.com>
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

The patch adds support for thread creation and context switching. The
context switching CPU specific code is introduced with the CPU support
patch (part of the arch/arm64/mm/proc.S file). AArch64 supports
ASID-tagged TLBs and the ASID can be either 8 or 16-bit wide (detectable
via the ID_AA64AFR0_EL1 register).
Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: NTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: NNicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: NOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: NSantosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

This patch implements process/thread related codes. Backtrace and stacktrace are here.
Signed-off-by: NGuan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Signed-off-by: NNicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>

Signed-off-by: NAndreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Acked-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

If we're only reading the VFP context via the ptrace call, there's
no need to invalidate the hardware context - we only need to do that
on PTRACE_SETVFPREGS.  This allows more efficient monitoring of a
traced task.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Implement TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME for most of those architectures in which isn't yet
available, and, whilst we're at it, have it call the appropriate tracehook.

After this patch, blackfin, m68k* and xtensa still lack support and need
alteration of assembly code to make it work.

Resume notification can then be used (by a later patch) to install a new
session keyring on the parent of a process.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

This patch adds support for TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK to ARM's
signal handling, which allows to hook up the pselect6, ppoll,
and epoll_pwait syscalls on ARM.

Tested here with eabi userspace and a test program with a
deliberate race between a child's exit and the parent's
sigprocmask/select sequence. Using sys_pselect6() instead
of sigprocmask/select reliably prevents the race.

The other arch's support for TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK has evolved
over time:

In 2.6.16:
- add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK which parallels TIF_SIGPENDING
- test both when checking for pending signal [changed later]
- reimplement sys_sigsuspend() to use current->saved_sigmask,
  TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK [changed later], and -ERESTARTNOHAND;
  ditto for sys_rt_sigsuspend(), but drop private code and
  use common code via __ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGSUSPEND;
- there are now no "extra" calls to do_signal() so its oldset
  parameter is always &current->blocked so need not be passed,
  also its return value is changed to void
- change handle_signal() to return 0/-errno
- change do_signal() to honor TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK:
  + get oldset from current->saved_sigmask if TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
    is set
  + if handle_signal() was successful then clear TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
  + if no signal was delivered and TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is set then
    clear it and restore the sigmask
- hook up sys_pselect6() and sys_ppoll()

In 2.6.19:
- hook up sys_epoll_pwait()

In 2.6.26:
- allow archs to override how TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is implemented;
  default set_restore_sigmask() sets both TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK and
  TIF_SIGPENDING; archs need now just test TIF_SIGPENDING again
  when checking for pending signal work; some archs now implement
  TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK as a secondary/non-atomic thread flag bit
- call set_restore_sigmask() in sys_sigsuspend() instead of setting
  TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK

In 2.6.29-rc:
- kill sys_pselect7() which no arch wanted

So for 2.6.31-rc6/ARM this patch does the following:
- Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK. Use the generic set_restore_sigmask()
  which sets both TIF_SIGPENDING and TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK, so
  TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK need not claim one of the scarce low thread
  flags, and existing TIF_SIGPENDING and _TIF_WORK_MASK tests need
  not be extended for TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK.
- sys_sigsuspend() is reimplemented to use current->saved_sigmask
  and set_restore_sigmask(), making it identical to most other archs
- The private code for sys_rt_sigsuspend() is removed, instead
  generic code supplies it via __ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGSUSPEND.
- sys_sigsuspend() and sys_rt_sigsuspend() no longer need a pt_regs
  parameter, so their assembly code wrappers are removed.
- handle_signal() is changed to return 0 on success or -errno.
- The oldset parameter to do_signal() is now redundant and removed,
  and the return value is now also redundant and changed to void.
- do_signal() is changed to honor TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK:
  + get oldset from current->saved_sigmask if TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
    is set
  + if handle_signal() was successful then clear TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
  + if no signal was delivered and TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is set then
    clear it and restore the sigmask
- Hook up sys_pselect6, sys_ppoll, and sys_epoll_pwait.
Signed-off-by: NMikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Pull the initial preempt_count value into a single
definition site.

Maintainers for: alpha, ia64 and m68k, please have a look,
your arch code is funny.

The header magic is a bit odd, but similar to the KERNEL_DS
one, CPP waits with expanding these macros until the
INIT_THREAD_INFO macro itself is expanded, which is in
arch/*/kernel/init_task.c where we've already included
sched.h so we're good.

Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: geert@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch changes the walk_stacktrace and its callers for easier
integration of stack unwinding. The arch/arm/kernel/stacktrace.h file is
also moved to arch/arm/include/asm/stacktrace.h.
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

This patch adds ptrace support for setting and getting the VFP registers
using PTRACE_SETVFPREGS and PTRACE_GETVFPREGS. The user_vfp structure
defined in asm/user.h contains 32 double registers (to cover VFPv3 and
Neon hardware) and the FPSCR register.

Cc: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

pc_pointer() was a function to mask the PC for 26-bit ARMs, which
we no longer support.  Remove it.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Move platform independent header files to arch/arm/include/asm, leaving
those in asm/arch* and asm/plat* alone.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

We duplicate alloc/free_thread_info defines on many platforms (the
majority uses __get_free_pages/free_pages).  This patch defines common
defines and removes these duplicated defines.
__HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR is introduced for platforms that do
something different.
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch adds the detection and handling of the ThumbEE extension on
ARMv7 CPUs.
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

Remove unused TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag for all processor architectures.  The
flag was not used excecpt on IA-64 where the patch replaces it with
TIF_PERFMON_WORK.
Signed-off-by: Nstephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

asm/thread_info.h doesn't need asm/ptrace.h, remove it.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

utrace removes the ptrace_message field in task_struct.  Move our use
of this field into a new member in thread_info called "syscall"
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Currently, to tell a task that it should go to the refrigerator, we set the
PF_FREEZE flag for it and send a fake signal to it.  Unfortunately there
are two SMP-related problems with this approach.  First, a task running on
another CPU may be updating its flags while the freezer attempts to set
PF_FREEZE for it and this may leave the task's flags in an inconsistent
state.  Second, there is a potential race between freeze_process() and
refrigerator() in which freeze_process() running on one CPU is reading a
task's PF_FREEZE flag while refrigerator() running on another CPU has just
set PF_FROZEN for the same task and attempts to reset PF_FREEZE for it.  If
the refrigerator wins the race, freeze_process() will state that PF_FREEZE
hasn't been set for the task and will set it unnecessarily, so the task
will go to the refrigerator once again after it's been thawed.

To solve first of these problems we need to stop using PF_FREEZE to tell
tasks that they should go to the refrigerator.  Instead, we can introduce a
special TIF_*** flag and use it for this purpose, since it is allowed to
change the other tasks' TIF_*** flags and there are special calls for it.

To avoid the freeze_process()-refrigerator() race we can make
freeze_process() to always check the task's PF_FROZEN flag after it's read
its "freeze" flag.  We should also make sure that refrigerator() will
always reset the task's "freeze" flag after it's set PF_FROZEN for it.
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Remove ARM local cache of 4 struct thread_info.
Can cause oops under certain circumstances.

Russell indicated the original optimization was
required on older kernels to avoid thread starvation
on memory fragmentation, but may no longer be
required.  I've updated the patch to 19rc4 and
ensured no <config.h> dain-bramage slipped in this
time (sorry about that).

Original description follows:

I was given some test results which pointed to an
Oops in alloc_thread_info (happened 2x), and after
looking at the code, I see that ARM has its own
local cache of 4 struct thread_info. There wasn't
any clear (to me) synchronization between the
alloc_thread_info and the free_thread_info.

I looked over the other arch, and they all simply
allocate them on an as needed basis, so I simplified
the ARM to do the same, based on the other arch
(e.g. PPC) and the folks doing the testing have
indicated that this fixed the oops.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Patch from Lennert Buytenhek

This patch makes the iWMMXt context switch hook use the generic
thread notifier infrastructure that was recently merged in commit
d6551e88.
Signed-off-by: NLennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>