I am getting more or less reproducible crashes from the CAPI subsystem
using the fcdsl driver:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000010
 printing eip:
c39bbca4
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
Modules linked in: netconsole capi capifs 3c59x mii fcdsl kernelcapi uhci_hcd usbcore ide_cd cdrom
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c39bbca4>]    Tainted: P      VLI
EFLAGS: 00010202   (2.6.16.11 #3)
EIP is at handle_minor_send+0x17a/0x241 [capi]
eax: c24abbc0   ebx: c0b4c980   ecx: 00000010   edx: 00000010
esi: c1679140   edi: c2783016   ebp: 0000c28d   esp: c0327e24
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=c0326000 task=c02e1300)
Stack: <0>000005b4 c1679180 00000000 c28d0000 c1ce04e0 c2f69654 c221604e c1679140
       c39bc19a 00000038 c20c0400 c075c560 c1f2f800 00000000 c01dc9b5 c1e96a40
       c075c560 c2ed64c0 c1e96a40 c01dcd3b c2fb94e8 c075c560 c0327f00 c1e96a40
Call Trace:
 [<c39bc19a>] capinc_tty_write+0xda/0xf3 [capi]
 [<c01dc9b5>] ppp_sync_push+0x52/0xfe
 [<c01dcd3b>] ppp_sync_send+0x1f5/0x204
 [<c01d9bc1>] ppp_push+0x3e/0x9c
 [<c01dacd4>] ppp_xmit_process+0x422/0x4cc
 [<c01daf3f>] ppp_start_xmit+0x1c1/0x1f6
 [<c0213ea5>] qdisc_restart+0xa7/0x135
 [<c020b112>] dev_queue_xmit+0xba/0x19e
 [<c0223f69>] ip_output+0x1eb/0x236
 [<c0220907>] ip_forward+0x1c1/0x21a
 [<c021fa6c>] ip_rcv+0x38e/0x3ea
 [<c020b4c2>] netif_receive_skb+0x166/0x195
 [<c020b55e>] process_backlog+0x6d/0xd2
 [<c020a30f>] net_rx_action+0x6a/0xff
 [<c0112909>] __do_softirq+0x35/0x7d
 [<c0112973>] do_softirq+0x22/0x26
 [<c0103a9d>] do_IRQ+0x1e/0x25
 [<c010255a>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
 [<c01013c5>] default_idle+0x2b/0x53
 [<c0101426>] cpu_idle+0x39/0x4e
 [<c0328386>] start_kernel+0x20b/0x20d
Code: c0 e8 b3 b6 77 fc 85 c0 75 10 68 d8 c8 9b c3 e8 82 3d 75 fc 8b 43 60 5a eb 50 8d 56 50 c7 00 00 00 00 00 66 89 68 04 eb 02 89
ca <8b> 0a 85 c9 75 f8 89 02 89 da ff 46 54 8b 46 10 e8 30 79 fd ff
 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

That oops took me to the "ackqueue" implementation in capi.c.  The crash
occured in capincci_add_ack() (auto-inlined by the compiler).

I read the code a bit and finally decided to replace the custom linked list
implementation (struct capiminor->ackqueue) by a struct list_head.  That
did not solve the crash, but produced the following interresting oops:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00200200
 printing eip:
c39bb1f5
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002 [#1]
Modules linked in: netconsole capi capifs 3c59x mii fcdsl kernelcapi uhci_hcd usbcore ide_cd cdrom
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c39bb1f5>]    Tainted: P      VLI
EFLAGS: 00010246   (2.6.16.11 #3)
EIP is at capiminor_del_ack+0x18/0x49 [capi]
eax: 00200200   ebx: c18d41a0   ecx: c1385620   edx: 00100100
esi: 0000d147   edi: 00001103   ebp: 0000d147   esp: c1093f3c
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process events/0 (pid: 3, threadinfo=c1092000 task=c1089030)
Stack: <0>c2a17580 c18d41a0 c39bbd16 00000038 c18d41e0 00000000 d147c640 c29e0b68
       c29e0b90 00000212 c29e0b68 c39932b2 c29e0bb0 c10736a0 c0119ef0 c399326c
       c10736a8 c10736a0 c10736b0 c0119f93 c011a06e 00000001 00000000 00000000
Call Trace:
 [<c39bbd16>] handle_minor_send+0x1af/0x241 [capi]
 [<c39932b2>] recv_handler+0x46/0x5f [kernelcapi]
 [<c0119ef0>] run_workqueue+0x5e/0x8d
 [<c399326c>] recv_handler+0x0/0x5f [kernelcapi]
 [<c0119f93>] worker_thread+0x0/0x10b
 [<c011a06e>] worker_thread+0xdb/0x10b
 [<c010c998>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
 [<c011c399>] kthread+0x90/0xbc
 [<c011c309>] kthread+0x0/0xbc
 [<c0100a65>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
Code: 7e 02 89 ee 89 f0 5a f7 d0 c1 f8 1f 5b 21 f0 5e 5f 5d c3 56 53 8b 48 50 89 d6 89 c3 8b 11 eb 2f 66 39 71 08 75 25 8b 41 04 8b 11 <89> 10 89 42 04 c7 01 00 01 10 00 89 c8 c7 41 04 00 02 20 00 e8

The interresting part of it is the "virtual address 00200200", which is
LIST_POISON2.  I thought about some race condition, but as this is an UP
system, it leads to questions on how it can happen.  If we look at EFLAGS:
00010202, we see that interrupts are enabled at the time of the crash
(eflags & 0x200).

Finally, I don't understand all the capi code, but I think that
handle_minor_send() is racing somehow against capi_recv_message(), which
call both capiminor_del_ack().  So if an IRQ occurs in the middle of
capiminor_del_ack() and another instance of it is invoked, it leads to
linked list corruption.

I came up with the following patch.  With this, I could not reproduce the
crash anymore.  Clearly, this is not the correct fix for the issue.  As this
seems to be some locking issue, there might be more locking issues in that
code.  For example, doesn't the whole struct capiminor have to be locked
somehow?

Cc: Carsten Paeth <calle@calle.de>
Cc: Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski@gmx.de>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

With this patch Kprobes now registers for page fault notifications only when
their is an active probe registered.  Once all the active probes are
unregistered their is no need to be notified of page faults and kprobes
unregisters itself from the page fault notifications.  Hence we will have ZERO
side effects when no probes are active.
Signed-off-by: NAnil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Kprobes now registers for page fault notifications.
Signed-off-by: NAnil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavmurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.
Signed-off-by: NAnil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.
Signed-off-by: NAnil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.
Signed-off-by: NAnil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.
Signed-off-by: NAnil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Currently in the do_page_fault() code path, we call notify_die(DIE_PAGE_FAULT,
...) to notify the page fault.  Since notify_die() is highly overloaded, this
page fault notification is currently being sent to all the components
registered with register_die_notification() which uses the same die_chain to
loop for all the registered components which is unnecessary.

In order to optimize the do_page_fault() code path, this critical page fault
notification is now moved to different call chain and the test results showed
great improvements.

And the kprobes which is interested in this notifications, now registers onto
this new call chain only when it need to, i.e Kprobes now registers for page
fault notification only when their are an active probes and unregisters from
this page fault notification when no probes are active.

I have incorporated all the feedback given by Ananth and Keith and everyone,
and thanks for all the review feedback.

This patch:

Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.
Signed-off-by: NAnil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

If there are multi kprobes on the same probepoint, there will be one extra
aggr_kprobe on the head of kprobe list.  The aggr_kprobe has
aggr_post_handler/aggr_break_handler whether the other kprobe
post_hander/break_handler is NULL or not.  This patch modifies this, only
when there is one or more kprobe in the list whose post_handler is not
NULL, post_handler of aggr_kprobe will be set as aggr_post_handler.

[soshima@redhat.com: !CONFIG_PREEMPT fix]
Signed-off-by: Nbibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yumiko Sugita <sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSatoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Previous kprobe-booster patch has not handled any 2byte opcodes and
prefixes.  I checked whole IA32 opcode map and classified it.

This patch enables kprobe to boost those 2byte opcodes and prefixes.
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yumiko Sugita <sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com>
Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add a GTOD clocksource driver based on the Geode SCx200's Hi-Res Timer.
Signed-off-by: NJim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This fixes the clock source updates in update_wall_time() to correctly
track the time coming in via current_tick_length().  Optimize the fast
paths to be as short as possible to keep the overhead low.
Signed-off-by: NRoman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Here is the PIT fix against the TOD patches that Tim pointed out.  Many
thanks to Tim for hunting this down.

Cc: Tim Mann <mann@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add a CLOCKSOURCE_MASK macro to simplify initializing the mask for a struct
clocksource, and use it to replace literal mask constants in the various
clocksource drivers.
Signed-off-by: NJim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- written on init only, accessed for every timer read --> __read_mostly
- fix broken sentence
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

As suggested by Roman Zippel, change clocksource functions to use
clocksource_xyz rather then xyz_clocksource to avoid polluting the
namespace.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Implement the time sources for i386 (acpi_pm, cyclone, hpet, pit, and tsc).
With this patch, the conversion of the i386 arch to the generic timekeeping
code should be complete.

The patch should be fairly straight forward, only adding the new clocksources.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: acpi_pm cleanup]
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Remove the old timers/timer_opts infrastructure which has been disabled.  It
is a fairly straightforward set of deletions

Note that this does not provide any i386 clocksources, so you will only have
the jiffies clocksource.  To get full replacements for the code being removed
here, the timeofday-clocks-i386 patch will be needed.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This converts the i386 arch to use the generic timeofday subsystem.  It
enabled the GENERIC_TIME option, disables the timer_opts code and other arch
specific timekeeping code and reworks the delay code.

While this patch enables the generic timekeeping, please note that this patch
does not provide any i386 clocksource.  Thus only the jiffies clocksource will
be available.  To get full replacements for the code being disabled here, the
timeofday-clocks-i386 patch will needed.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

As part of the i386 conversion to the generic timekeeping infrastructure, this
introduces a new tsc.c file.  The code in this file replaces the TSC
initialization, management and access code currently in timer_tsc.c (which
will be removed) that we want to preserve.

The code also introduces the following functionality:

o tsc_khz: like cpu_khz but stores the TSC frequency on systems that do not
  change TSC frequency w/ CPU frequency

o check/mark_tsc_unstable: accessor/modifier flag for TSC timekeeping
  usability

o minor cleanups to calibration math.

This patch also includes a one line __cpuinitdata fix from Zwane Mwaikambo.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

A simple cleanup for the i386 arch in preparation of moving to the generic
timeofday infrastructure.  It simply moves the PIT initialization code, locks,
and other code we want to keep from some code from timer_pit.c (which will be
removed) to i8253.c.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

John's about to nuke x86's monotonic clock without grepping for it first.  The
patch lamely borrows the ppc64 code for x86.

hangcheck-timer shouldn't be doing it this way

a) HAVE_MONOTONIC should be CONFIG_MONOTONIC_CLOCK and it should be defined
   in arch/xxx/Kconfig.

b) That ifdef tangle shouldn't be in hangcheck-timer.c.  It should be using
   arch-provided helper functions, which CONFIG_MONOTONIC_CLOCK-enabling
   architectures implement in arch/something.c

Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Introduces clocksource switching code and the arch generic time accessor
functions that use the clocksource infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Instead of incrementing xtime by tick_nsec + ntp adjustments, use the
clocksource abstraction to increment and scale time.  Using the clocksource
abstraction allows other clocksources to be used consistently in the face of
late or lost ticks, while preserving the existing behavior via the jiffies
clocksource.

This removes the need to keep time_phase adjustments as we just use the
current_tick_length() function as the NTP interface and accumulate time using
shifted nanoseconds.

The basics of this design was by Roman Zippel, however it is my own
interpretation and implementation, so the credit should go to him and the
blame to me.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Change the current_tick_length() function so it takes an argument which
specifies how much precision to return in shifted nanoseconds.  This provides
a simple way to convert between NTPs internal nanoseconds shifted by
(SHIFT_SCALE - 10) to other shifted nanosecond units that are used by the
clocksource abstraction.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Modify the update_wall_time function so it increments time using the
clocksource abstraction instead of jiffies.  Since the only clocksource driver
currently provided is the jiffies clocksource, this should result in no
functional change.  Additionally, a timekeeping_init and timekeeping_resume
function has been added to initialize and maintain some of the new timekeping
state.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: fixlet]
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This introduces the clocksource management infrastructure.  A clocksource is a
driver-like architecture generic abstraction of a free-running counter.  This
code defines the clocksource structure, and provides management code for
registering, selecting, accessing and scaling clocksources.

Additionally, this includes the trivial jiffies clocksource, a lowest common
denominator clocksource, provided mainly for use as an example.

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: Don't enable IRQ too early]
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch adds "-o bh" option to force use of buffer_heads.  This option
is needed when we make "nobh" as default - and if we run into problems.
Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch series replaces the old non-generic Hardware Random Number
Generator support by a fully generic RNG API.

This makes it possible to register additional RNGs from modules.  With this
patch series applied, Laptops with a bcm43xx chip (PowerBook) have a HW RNG
available now.

Additionally two new RNG drivers are added for the "ixp4xx" and "omap"
devices.  (Written by Deepak Saxena).  This patch series includes the old
patches by Deepak Saxena.

The old x86-rng driver has beed split.

The userspace RNG daemon can later be updated to select the RNG through
/sys/class/misc/hw_random/ for convenience.  For now it is sufficient to use
cat and echo -n on the sysfs attributes.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add a /proc/<pid>/attr/keycreate entry that stores the appropriate context for
newly-created keys.  Modify the selinux_key_alloc hook to make use of the new
entry.  Update the flask headers to include a new "setkeycreate" permission
for processes.  Update the flask headers to include a new "create" permission
for keys.  Use the create permission to restrict which SIDs each task can
assign to newly-created keys.  Add a new parameter to the security hook
"security_key_alloc" to indicate whether it is being invoked by the kernel, or
from userspace.  If it is being invoked by the kernel, the security hook
should never fail.  Update the documentation to reflect these changes.
Signed-off-by: NMichael LeMay <mdlemay@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Restrict /proc/keys such that only those keys to which the current task is
granted View permission are presented.

The documentation is also updated to reflect these changes.
Signed-off-by: NMichael LeMay <mdlemay@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>