1. 09 2月, 2008 4 次提交
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      avoid overflows in kernel/time.c · bdc80787
      H. Peter Anvin 提交于
      When the conversion factor between jiffies and milli- or microseconds is
      not a single multiply or divide, as for the case of HZ == 300, we currently
      do a multiply followed by a divide.  The intervening result, however, is
      subject to overflows, especially since the fraction is not simplified (for
      HZ == 300, we multiply by 300 and divide by 1000).
      
      This is exposed to the user when passing a large timeout to poll(), for
      example.
      
      This patch replaces the multiply-divide with a reciprocal multiplication on
      32-bit platforms.  When the input is an unsigned long, there is no portable
      way to do this on 64-bit platforms there is no portable way to do this
      since it requires a 128-bit intermediate result (which gcc does support on
      64-bit platforms but may generate libgcc calls, e.g.  on 64-bit s390), but
      since the output is a 32-bit integer in the cases affected, just simplify
      the multiply-divide (*3/10 instead of *300/1000).
      
      The reciprocal multiply used can have off-by-one errors in the upper half
      of the valid output range.  This could be avoided at the expense of having
      to deal with a potential 65-bit intermediate result.  Since the intent is
      to avoid overflow problems and most of the other time conversions are only
      semiexact, the off-by-one errors were considered an acceptable tradeoff.
      
      At Ralf Baechle's suggestion, this version uses a Perl script to compute
      the necessary constants.  We already have dependencies on Perl for kernel
      compiles.  This does, however, require the Perl module Math::BigInt, which
      is included in the standard Perl distribution starting with version 5.8.0.
      In order to support older versions of Perl, include a table of canned
      constants in the script itself, and structure the script so that
      Math::BigInt isn't required if pulling values from said table.
      
      Running the script requires that the HZ value is available from the
      Makefile.  Thus, this patch also adds the Kconfig variable CONFIG_HZ to the
      architectures which didn't already have it (alpha, cris, frv, h8300, m32r,
      m68k, m68knommu, sparc, v850, and xtensa.) It does *not* touch the sh or
      sh64 architectures, since Paul Mundt has dealt with those separately in the
      sh tree.
      Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
      Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
      Cc: Michael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>,
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>,
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
      Cc: William L. Irwin <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>,
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>,
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
      Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      bdc80787
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      aout: remove unnecessary inclusions of {asm, linux}/a.out.h · 1eb11411
      David Howells 提交于
      Remove now unnecessary inclusions of {asm,linux}/a.out.h.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build]
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1eb11411
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      aout: suppress A.OUT library support if !CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT · 7fa30315
      David Howells 提交于
      Suppress A.OUT library support if CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT is not set.
      
      Not all architectures support the A.OUT binfmt, so the ELF binfmt should not
      be permitted to go looking for A.OUT libraries to load in such a case.  Not
      only that, but under such conditions A.OUT core dumps are not produced either.
      
      To make this work, this patch also does the following:
      
       (1) Makes the existence of the contents of linux/a.out.h contingent on
           CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT.
      
       (2) Renames dump_thread() to aout_dump_thread() as it's only called by A.OUT
           core dumping code.
      
       (3) Moves aout_dump_thread() into asm/a.out-core.h and makes it inline.  This
           is then included only where needed.  This means that this bit of arch
           code will be stored in the appropriate A.OUT binfmt module rather than
           the core kernel.
      
       (4) Drops A.OUT support for Blackfin (according to Mike Frysinger it's not
           needed) and FRV.
      
      This patch depends on the previous patch to move STACK_TOP[_MAX] out of
      asm/a.out.h and into asm/processor.h as they're required whether or not A.OUT
      format is available.
      
      [jdike@addtoit.com: uml: re-remove accidentally restored code]
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7fa30315
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      aout: mark arches that support A.OUT format · b0b933c0
      David Howells 提交于
      Mark arches that support A.OUT format by including the following in their
      master Kconfig files:
      
      	config ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT
      		def_bool y
      
      This should also be set if the arch provides compatibility A.OUT support for
      an older arch, for instance x86_64 for i386 or sparc64 for sparc.
      
      I've guessed at which arches don't, based on comments in the code, however I'm
      sure that some of the ones I've marked as 'yes' actually should be 'no'.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b0b933c0
  2. 08 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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      Introduce flags for reserve_bootmem() · 72a7fe39
      Bernhard Walle 提交于
      This patchset adds a flags variable to reserve_bootmem() and uses the
      BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE flag in crashkernel reservation code to detect collisions
      between crashkernel area and already used memory.
      
      This patch:
      
      Change the reserve_bootmem() function to accept a new flag BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE.
      If that flag is set, the function returns with -EBUSY if the memory already
      has been reserved in the past.  This is to avoid conflicts.
      
      Because that code runs before SMP initialisation, there's no race condition
      inside reserve_bootmem_core().
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
      Signed-off-by: NBernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      72a7fe39
  3. 07 2月, 2008 6 次提交
  4. 06 2月, 2008 2 次提交
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      [SPARC]: Add new timerfd syscall entries. · 3db1d97a
      David S. Miller 提交于
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      3db1d97a
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      timerfd: new timerfd API · 4d672e7a
      Davide Libenzi 提交于
      This is the new timerfd API as it is implemented by the following patch:
      
      int timerfd_create(int clockid, int flags);
      int timerfd_settime(int ufd, int flags,
      		    const struct itimerspec *utmr,
      		    struct itimerspec *otmr);
      int timerfd_gettime(int ufd, struct itimerspec *otmr);
      
      The timerfd_create() API creates an un-programmed timerfd fd.  The "clockid"
      parameter can be either CLOCK_MONOTONIC or CLOCK_REALTIME.
      
      The timerfd_settime() API give new settings by the timerfd fd, by optionally
      retrieving the previous expiration time (in case the "otmr" parameter is not
      NULL).
      
      The time value specified in "utmr" is absolute, if the TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME bit
      is set in the "flags" parameter.  Otherwise it's a relative time.
      
      The timerfd_gettime() API returns the next expiration time of the timer, or
      {0, 0} if the timerfd has not been set yet.
      
      Like the previous timerfd API implementation, read(2) and poll(2) are
      supported (with the same interface).  Here's a simple test program I used to
      exercise the new timerfd APIs:
      
      http://www.xmailserver.org/timerfd-test2.c
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix m68k build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha, arm, blackfin, cris, m68k, s390, sparc and sparc64 builds]
      [heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: fix s390]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64 more]
      Signed-off-by: NDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4d672e7a
  5. 03 2月, 2008 4 次提交
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      remove Documentation/smp.txt · 03502faa
      Adrian Bunk 提交于
      After seeing the filename I'd have expected something about the
      implementation of SMP in the Linux kernel - not some notes on kernel
      configuration and building trivialities noone would search at this
      place.
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      03502faa
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      Spelling fixes: lenght->length · efad798b
      Paulius Zaleckas 提交于
      Signed-off-by: NPaulius Zaleckas <pauliusz@yahoo.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
      efad798b
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      Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig · 125e5645
      Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
      Move the instrumentation Kconfig to
      
      arch/Kconfig for architecture dependent options
        - oprofile
        - kprobes
      
      and
      
      init/Kconfig for architecture independent options
        - profiling
        - markers
      
      Remove the "Instrumentation Support" menu. Everything moves to "General setup".
      Delete the kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation file.
      Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      125e5645
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      Add HAVE_OPROFILE · 42d4b839
      Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
      Linus:
      On the per-architecture side, I do think it would be better to *not* have
      internal architecture knowledge in a generic file, and as such a line like
      
              depends on X86_32 || IA64 || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || AVR32
      
      really shouldn't exist in a file like kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation.
      
      It would be much better to do
      
              depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
      
      in that generic file, and then architectures that do support it would just
      have a
      
              bool ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
                      default y
      
      in *their* architecture files. That would seem to be much more logical,
      and is readable both for arch maintainers *and* for people who have no
      clue - and don't care - about which architecture is supposed to support
      which interface...
      
      Changelog:
      
      Actually, I know I gave this as the magic incantation, but now that I see
      it, I realize that I should have told you to just use
      
              config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
                      def_bool y
      
      instead, which is a bit denser.
      
      We seem to use both kinds of syntax for these things, but this is really
      what "def_bool" is there for...
      
      Changelog :
      
      - Moving to HAVE_*.
      - Add AVR32 oprofile.
      Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      42d4b839
  6. 01 2月, 2008 1 次提交
  7. 29 1月, 2008 1 次提交
  8. 23 1月, 2008 1 次提交
  9. 13 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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      [SPARC]: Make gettimeofday() monotonic again. · 000775c5
      David S. Miller 提交于
      When we switched away from the optimized C version
      things stopped being monotonic.
      
      The problem is that if we run this with interrupts disabled, we can
      see the interrupt pending because the counter reached the limit value.
      When this happens the counter has bit 31 set, and the low bits start
      counting again from zero.
      
      Reported by Martin Habets.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      000775c5
  10. 21 12月, 2007 1 次提交
  11. 05 12月, 2007 2 次提交
  12. 07 11月, 2007 1 次提交
  13. 27 10月, 2007 2 次提交
  14. 24 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  15. 23 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  16. 20 10月, 2007 3 次提交
  17. 18 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  18. 17 10月, 2007 3 次提交
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      remove include/asm-*/ipc.h · cba4fbbf
      Adrian Bunk 提交于
      All asm/ipc.h files do only #include <asm-generic/ipc.h>.
      
      This patch therefore removes all include/asm-*/ipc.h files and moves the
      contents of include/asm-generic/ipc.h to include/linux/ipc.h.
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cba4fbbf
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      KCONFIG: Make "Instrumentation support" non-EXPERIMENTAL · 966fe399
      Robert P. J. Day 提交于
      It makes more sense to make instrumentation support experimental on a
      case-by-case basis.
      Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      966fe399
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      During VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group · dcca2bde
      Will Schmidt 提交于
      We have had complaints where a threaded application is left in a bad state
      after one of it's threads is killed when we hit a VM: out_of_memory
      condition.
      
      Killing just one of the process threads can leave the application in a bad
      state, whereas killing the entire process group would allow for the
      application to restart, or be otherwise handled, and makes it very obvious
      that something has gone wrong.
      
      This change allows the entire process group to be taken down, rather
      than just the one thread.
      Signed-off-by: NWill Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
      Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
      Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dcca2bde
  19. 16 10月, 2007 2 次提交
  20. 15 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CC · a0f97e06
      Sam Ravnborg 提交于
      The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
      kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
      On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
      pass in additional flags to gcc.
      
      This patch replace use of CFLAGS with KBUILD_CFLAGS all over the
      tree and enabling one to use:
      make CFLAGS=...
      to specify additional gcc commandline options.
      
      One usecase is when trying to find gcc bugs but other
      use cases has been requested too.
      
      Patch was tested on following architectures:
      alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k
      
      Test was simple to do a defconfig build, apply the patch and check
      that nothing got rebuild.
      Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      a0f97e06
  21. 14 10月, 2007 1 次提交