1. 08 2月, 2006 1 次提交
  2. 19 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  3. 13 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  4. 09 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] syscall entry/exit revamp · 401d1f02
      David Woodhouse 提交于
      This cleanup patch speeds up the null syscall path on ppc64 by about 3%,
      and brings the ppc32 and ppc64 code slightly closer together.
      
      The ppc64 code was checking current_thread_info()->flags twice in the
      syscall exit path; once for TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A before disabling
      interrupts, and then again for TIF_SIGPENDING|TIF_NEED_RESCHED etc after
      disabling interrupts. Now we do the same as ppc32 -- check the flags
      only once in the fast path, and re-enable interrupts if necessary in the
      ptrace case.
      
      The patch abolishes the 'syscall_noerror' member of struct thread_info
      and replaces it with a TIF_NOERROR bit in the flags, which is handled in
      the slow path. This shortens the syscall entry code, which no longer
      needs to clear syscall_noerror.
      
      The patch adds a TIF_SAVE_NVGPRS flag which causes the syscall exit slow
      path to save the non-volatile GPRs into a signal frame. This removes the
      need for the assembly wrappers around sys_sigsuspend(),
      sys_rt_sigsuspend(), et al which existed solely to save those registers
      in advance. It also means I don't have to add new wrappers for ppoll()
      and pselect(), which is what I was supposed to be doing when I got
      distracted into this...
      
      Finally, it unifies the ppc64 and ppc32 methods of handling syscall exit
      directly into a signal handler (as required by sigsuspend et al) by
      introducing a TIF_RESTOREALL flag which causes _all_ the registers to be
      reloaded from the pt_regs by taking the ret_from_exception path, instead
      of the normal syscall exit path which stomps on the callee-saved GPRs.
      
      It appears to pass an LTP test run on ppc64, and passes basic testing on
      ppc32 too. Brief tests of ptrace functionality with strace and gdb also
      appear OK. I wouldn't send it to Linus for 2.6.15 just yet though :)
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      401d1f02
  5. 07 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] ppc64: support 64k pages · 3c726f8d
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
      Adds a new CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES which, when enabled, changes the kernel
      base page size to 64K.  The resulting kernel still boots on any
      hardware.  On current machines with 4K pages support only, the kernel
      will maintain 16 "subpages" for each 64K page transparently.
      
      Note that while real 64K capable HW has been tested, the current patch
      will not enable it yet as such hardware is not released yet, and I'm
      still verifying with the firmware architects the proper to get the
      information from the newer hypervisors.
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      3c726f8d
  6. 27 10月, 2005 1 次提交
  7. 21 10月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] powerpc: Merge thread_info.h · 6cb7bfeb
      David Gibson 提交于
      Merge ppc32 and ppc64 versions of thread_info.h.  They were pretty
      similar already, the chief changes are:
      
      	- Instead of inline asm to implement current_thread_info(),
      which needs to be different for ppc32 and ppc64, we use C with an
      asm("r1") register variable.  gcc turns it into the same asm as we
      used to have for both platforms.
      	- We replace ppc32's 'local_flags' with the ppc64
      'syscall_noerror' field.  The noerror flag was in fact the only thing
      in the local_flags field anyway, so the ppc64 approach is simpler, and
      means we only need a load-immediate/store instead of load/mask/store
      when clearing the flag.
      	- In readiness for 64k pages, when THREAD_SIZE will be less
      than a page, ppc64 used kmalloc() rather than get_free_pages() to
      allocate the kernel stack.  With this patch we do the same for ppc32,
      since there's no strong reason not to.
      	- For ppc64, we no longer export THREAD_SHIFT and THREAD_SIZE
      via asm-offsets, thread_info.h can now be safely included in asm, as
      on ppc32.
      
      Built and booted on G4 Powerbook (ARCH=ppc and ARCH=powerpc) and
      Power5 (ARCH=ppc64 and ARCH=powerpc).
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      6cb7bfeb
  8. 21 9月, 2005 1 次提交
  9. 24 6月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] streamline preempt_count type across archs · dcd497f9
      Jesper Juhl 提交于
      The preempt_count member of struct thread_info is currently either defined
      as int, unsigned int or __s32 depending on arch.  This patch makes the type
      of preempt_count an int on all archs.
      
      Having preempt_count be an unsigned type prevents the catching of
      preempt_count < 0 bugs, and using int on some archs and __s32 on others is
      not exactely "neat" - much nicer when it's just int all over.
      
      A previous version of this patch was already ACK'ed by Robert Love, and the
      only change in this version of the patch compared to the one he ACK'ed is
      that this one also makes sure the preempt_count member is consistently
      commented.
      Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      dcd497f9
  10. 03 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  11. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4