1. 27 12月, 2011 1 次提交
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      [S390] cleanup trap handling · aa33c8cb
      Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
      Move the program interruption code and the translation exception identifier
      to the pt_regs structure as 'int_code' and 'int_parm_long' and make the
      first level interrupt handler in entry[64].S store the two values. That
      makes it possible to drop 'prot_addr' and 'trap_no' from the thread_struct
      and to reduce the number of arguments to a lot of functions. Finally
      un-inline do_trap. Overall this saves 5812 bytes in the .text section of
      the 64 bit kernel.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      aa33c8cb
  2. 02 8月, 2008 1 次提交
  3. 17 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      x86: optimize page faults like all other achitectures and kill notifier cruft · 74a0b576
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      x86(-64) are the last architectures still using the page fault notifier
      cruft for the kprobes page fault hook.  This patch converts them to the
      proper direct calls, and removes the now unused pagefault notifier bits
      aswell as the cruft in kprobes.c that was related to this mess.
      
      I know Andi didn't really like this, but all other architecture maintainers
      agreed the direct calls are much better and besides the obvious cruft
      removal a common way of dealing with kprobes across architectures is
      important aswell.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64]
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      74a0b576
  4. 09 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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      move die notifier handling to common code · 1eeb66a1
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      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: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1eeb66a1
  5. 05 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  6. 06 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  7. 20 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  8. 27 6月, 2006 1 次提交
  9. 28 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes · e041c683
      Alan Stern 提交于
      The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe.  There is no
      protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
      chain is in use.  The issues were discussed in this thread:
      
          http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2
      
      We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
      classes:
      
      	"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
      	and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;
      
      	"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
      	the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.
      
      We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API.  Therefore
      this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
      notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
      really just the old API under a new name).  New kinds of data structures are
      used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
      registration, unregistration, and calling a chain.  The three APIs are
      explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
      kernel/sys.c.
      
      With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
      links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
      entries being added or removed.  For raw chains the implementation provides no
      guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections.  (The
      idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
      blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
      handle these things in their own way.)
      
      There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with.  For
      atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
      a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem.  Also, a
      callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
      entries on its own chain.  (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
      had to be changed to avoid it.)
      
      Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
      spinlocks for synchronization.  Instead we use RCU.  The overhead falls almost
      entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
      less frequent that calling a chain.
      
      Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications.  None
      of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.
      
        ATOMIC CHAINS
        -------------
      arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:		i386die_chain
      arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c:		ia64die_chain
      arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:		powerpc_die_chain
      arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:		sparc64die_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:		die_chain
      drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:	xaction_notifier_list
      kernel/panic.c:				panic_notifier_list
      kernel/profile.c:			task_free_notifier
      net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:		hci_notifier
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_chain
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/ipv6/addrconf.c:			inet6addr_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/netlink/af_netlink.c:		netlink_chain
      
        BLOCKING CHAINS
        ---------------
      arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c:	pSeries_reconfig_chain
      arch/s390/kernel/process.c:		idle_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c		idle_notifier
      drivers/base/memory.c:			memory_chain
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/adb.c:		adb_client_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c	wf_client_list
      drivers/usb/core/notify.c		usb_notifier_list
      drivers/video/fbmem.c			fb_notifier_list
      kernel/cpu.c				cpu_chain
      kernel/module.c				module_notify_list
      kernel/profile.c			munmap_notifier
      kernel/profile.c			task_exit_notifier
      kernel/sys.c				reboot_notifier_list
      net/core/dev.c				netdev_chain
      net/decnet/dn_dev.c:			dnaddr_chain
      net/ipv4/devinet.c:			inetaddr_chain
      
      It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong.  If they are,
      please let us know or submit a patch to fix them.  Note that any chain that
      gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
      used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
      (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
      atomic.)
      
      The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
      material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
      Morton.
      
      [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
      Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      Signed-off-by: NChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e041c683
  10. 05 9月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] x86 NMI: better support for debuggers · 748f2edb
      George Anzinger 提交于
      This patch adds a notify to the die_nmi notify that the system is about to
      be taken down.  If the notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the
      system is given a new lease on life.
      
      We also change the nmi watchdog to carry on if die_nmi returns.
      
      This give debug code a chance to a) catch watchdog timeouts and b) possibly
      allow the system to continue, realizing that the time out may be due to
      debugger activities such as single stepping which is usually done with
      "other" cpus held.
      
      Signed-off-by: George Anzinger<george@mvista.com>
      Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NGeorge Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      748f2edb
  11. 26 6月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] RCU: clean up a few remaining synchronize_kernel() calls · b2b18660
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      2.6.12-rc6-mm1 has a few remaining synchronize_kernel()s, some (but not
      all) in comments.  This patch changes these synchronize_kernel() calls (and
      comments) to synchronize_rcu() or synchronize_sched() as follows:
      
      - arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c mce_read(): change to synchronize_sched() to
        handle races with machine-check exceptions (synchronize_rcu() would not cut
        it given RCU implementations intended for hardcore realtime use.
      
      - drivers/input/serio/i8042.c i8042_stop(): change to synchronize_sched() to
        handle races with i8042_interrupt() interrupt handler.  Again,
        synchronize_rcu() would not cut it given RCU implementations intended for
        hardcore realtime use.
      
      - include/*/kdebug.h comments: change to synchronize_sched() to handle races
        with NMIs.  As before, synchronize_rcu() would not cut it...
      
      - include/linux/list.h comment: change to synchronize_rcu(), since this
        comment is for list_del_rcu().
      
      - security/keys/key.c unregister_key_type(): change to synchronize_rcu(),
        since this is interacting with RCU read side.
      
      - security/keys/process_keys.c install_session_keyring(): change to
        synchronize_rcu(), since this is interacting with RCU read side.
      Signed-off-by: N"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b2b18660
  12. 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