- 22 10月, 2007 8 次提交
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
Get independent from asm-generic/4level-fixup.h Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
- De-confuse the defines for the address-space-control-elements and the segment/region table entries. - Create out of line functions for page table allocation / freeing. - Simplify get_shadow_xxx functions. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
Define and use follow_table inline in uaccess_pt.c to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
The current tlb flushing code for page table entries violates the s390 architecture in a small detail. The relevant section from the principles of operation (SA22-7832-02 page 3-47): "A valid table entry must not be changed while it is attached to any CPU and may be used for translation by that CPU except to (1) invalidate the entry by using INVALIDATE PAGE TABLE ENTRY or INVALIDATE DAT TABLE ENTRY, (2) alter bits 56-63 of a page-table entry, or (3) make a change by means of a COMPARE AND SWAP AND PURGE instruction that purges the TLB." That means if one thread of a multithreaded applciation uses a vma while another thread does an unmap on it, the page table entries of that vma needs to get removed with IPTE, IDTE or CSP. In some strange and rare situations a cpu could check-stop (die) because a entry has been pushed out of the TLB that is still needed to complete a (milli-coded) instruction. I've never seen it happen with the current code on any of the supported machines, so right now this is a theoretical problem. But I want to fix it nevertheless, to avoid headaches in the futures. To get this implemented correctly without changing common code the primitives ptep_get_and_clear, ptep_get_and_clear_full and ptep_set_wrprotect need to use the IPTE instruction to invalidate the pte before the new pte value gets stored. If IPTE is always used for the three primitives three important operations will have a performace hit: fork, mprotect and exit_mmap. Time for some workarounds: * 1: ptep_get_and_clear_full is used in unmap_vmas to remove page tables entries in a batched tlb gather operation. If the mmu_gather context passed to unmap_vmas has been started with full_mm_flush==1 or if only one cpu is online or if the only user of a mm_struct is the current process then the fullmm indication in the mmu_gather context is set to one. All TLBs for mm_struct are flushed by the tlb_gather_mmu call. No new TLBs can be created while the unmap is in progress. In this case ptep_get_and_clear_full clears the ptes with a simple store. * 2: ptep_get_and_clear is used in change_protection to clear the ptes from the page tables before they are reentered with the new access flags. At the end of the update flush_tlb_range clears the remaining TLBs. In general the ptep_get_and_clear has to issue IPTE for each pte and flush_tlb_range is a nop. But if there is only one user of the mm_struct then ptep_get_and_clear uses simple stores to do the update and flush_tlb_range will flush the TLBs. * 3: Similar to 2, ptep_set_wrprotect is used in copy_page_range for a fork to make all ptes of a cow mapping read-only. At the end of of copy_page_range dup_mmap will flush the TLBs with a call to flush_tlb_mm. Check for mm->mm_users and if there is only one user avoid using IPTE in ptep_set_wrprotect and let flush_tlb_mm clear the TLBs. Overall for single threaded programs the tlb flush code now performs better, for multi threaded programs it is slightly worse. In particular exit_mmap() now does a single IDTE for the mm and then just frees every page cache reference and every page table page directly without a delay over the mmu_gather structure. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Michael Holzheu 提交于
Currently the ccw method is used to ipl the DASD dump record under LPAR. This mechanism is not reliable, which can cause dump failures. This fix now uses the diag 308 ipl method for all machines, which have diag308 subcode 5 and 4 support. Signed-off-by: NMichael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
Add two new sysfs entries per cpu: idle_count and idle_time. idle_count contains the number of times a cpu went into idle state. idle_time contains the time a cpu spent in idle state in microseconds. This can be used e.g. by powertop to tell how often idle state is entered and left. # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/idle_count 504 # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/idle_time 469734037 us Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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- 20 10月, 2007 3 次提交
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由 Mathieu Desnoyers 提交于
Quoting Randy: "It seems sad that this patch sources Kconfig.marker, a 7-line file, 20-something times. Yes, you (we) don't want to put those 7 lines into 20-something different files, so sourcing is the right thing. However, what you did for avr32 seems more on the right track to me: make _one_ Instrumentation support menu that includes PROFILING, OPROFILE, KPROBES, and MARKERS and then use (source) that in all of the arches." Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
One of the easiest things to isolate is the pid printed in kernel log. There was a patch, that made this for arch-independent code, this one makes so for arch/xxx files. It took some time to cross-compile it, but hopefully these are all the printks in arch code. Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.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>
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由 Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
is_init() is an ambiguous name for the pid==1 check. Split it into is_global_init() and is_container_init(). A cgroup init has it's tsk->pid == 1. A global init also has it's tsk->pid == 1 and it's active pid namespace is the init_pid_ns. But rather than check the active pid namespace, compare the task structure with 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper', which is initialized during boot to the /sbin/init process and never changes. Changelog: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1: - Use 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper' to determine if a given task is the global init (/sbin/init) process. This would improve performance and remove dependence on the task_pid(). 2.6.21-mm2-pidns2: - [Sukadev Bhattiprolu] Changed is_container_init() calls in {powerpc, ppc,avr32}/traps.c for the _exception() call to is_global_init(). This way, we kill only the cgroup if the cgroup's init has a bug rather than force a kernel panic. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment] [sukadev@us.ibm.com: Use is_global_init() in arch/m32r/mm/fault.c] [bunk@stusta.de: kernel/pid.c: remove unused exports] [sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix capability.c to work with threaded init] Signed-off-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at> Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 17 10月, 2007 5 次提交
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由 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>
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由 David Rientjes 提交于
Move the OOM killer's extern function prototypes to include/linux/oom.h and include it where necessary. [clg@fr.ibm.com: build fix] Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: NCedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Introduce architecture dependent kretprobe blacklists to prohibit users from inserting return probes on the function in which kprobes can be inserted but kretprobes can not. This patch also removes "__kprobes" mark from "__switch_to" on x86_64 and registers "__switch_to" to the blacklist on x86-64, because that mark is to prohibit user from inserting only kretprobe. Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: NAnanth 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>
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由 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>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
Identical handlers of PTRACE_DETACH go into ptrace_request(). Not touching compat code. Not touching archs that don't call ptrace_request. Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Acked-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 16 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Sam Ravnborg 提交于
The variable AFLAGS 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 AFLAGS with KBUILD_AFLAGS all over the tree. Patch was tested on following architectures: alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k, s390 Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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- 15 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 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>
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- 12 10月, 2007 11 次提交
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
Make sure parameter list of the pfault token function is eight byte aligned. Otherwise we can get specification exceptions. Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Sam Ravnborg 提交于
Replace the hardcoded 4096 value with the PAGE_SIZE macro. Converted a few decimal numbers to readable hex numbers. Use of PAGE_SIZE required a small change to page.h to allow PAGE_SIZE to be used from assembler/linker scripts. Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Sam Ravnborg 提交于
Introduce a consistent style in vmlinux.lds. This style is gradually being introduced for all archs. A few lables were moved inside the section definition so they are assigned the correct value of gcc decide to align the content to another address than the one . has. In the past this has fixed several bugs but for s390 it will not impact due to all the alignmnet already introduced. Stabs definitions are consolidated in asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h This patch also introduce support for DWARF - without knowing if this makes sense for s390. Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
After assigning values to specific registers memset was called. This may clobber the contents of the used registers. To solve this extract the two used inline assemblies into small functions that don't call any functions. Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Michael Holzheu 提交于
If we use the CLEAR ipl option, reipl is faster, since then VM can release the memory, which has been paged out. Signed-off-by: NMichael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
Also removes a bunch of ^L in drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Christian Borntraeger 提交于
There is no need to assign "0" to "hops" twice. Remove one assigment. Signed-off-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
The termination condition of the loop that prints the operands of an instruction doesn't stop after the maximum of 6 operands. It continues with the operands of the next instruction format instead which create really long lines. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Satyam Sharma 提交于
arch/s390/Kconfig tells us that CONFIG_APPLDATA_BASE is bool and hence can never be built modular. Given this, defining appldata_exit() function is pointless (and wasteful, actually). Remove all that. Previous patch annotated appldata_offline_cpu() as __cpuexit, but now with the __exit function appldata_exit() gone, the only callsite that references it is __cpuinit, so this function can also be __cpuinit, thereby saving space when HOTPLUG_CPU=n. Signed-off-by: NSatyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Satyam Sharma 提交于
appldata_offline_cpu() is only called from __cpuinit-marked hotplug notifier callback and from the __exit-marked module_exit function, therefore candidate for __cpuexit. BTW the __exit module_exit function appldata_exit() of this driver fails to unregister_hotcpu_notifier() the notifier_block that was registered by appldata_init() during module startup. This will lead to oops if hotplug notification comes after module has been unloaded. Let's fix this by unregistering the notifier appropriately (before appldata_offline_cpu()'ing the CPUs). Signed-off-by: NSatyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
Run the lockdep_sys_exit hook before returning to user space. Reviewed-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 11 10月, 2007 5 次提交
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由 Jan Glauber 提交于
There are currently several SHA implementations that all define their own initialization vectors and size values. Since this values are idential move them to a header file under include/crypto. Signed-off-by: NJan Glauber <jang@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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由 Sebastian Siewior 提交于
Loading the crypto algorithm by the alias instead of by module directly has the advantage that all possible implementations of this algorithm are loaded automatically and the crypto API can choose the best one depending on its priority. Additionally it ensures that the generic implementation as well as the HW driver (if available) is loaded in case the HW driver needs the generic version as fallback in corner cases. Also remove the probe for sha1 in padlock's init code. Quote from Herbert: The probe is actually pointless since we can always probe when the algorithm is actually used which does not lead to dead-locks like this. Signed-off-by: NSebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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由 Sebastian Siewior 提交于
Loading the crypto algorithm by the alias instead of by module directly has the advantage that all possible implementations of this algorithm are loaded automatically and the crypto API can choose the best one depending on its priority. Additionally it ensures that the generic implementation as well as the HW driver (if available) is loaded in case the HW driver needs the generic version as fallback in corner cases. Signed-off-by: NSebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
This patch makes most of the generic device layer network namespace safe. This patch makes dev_base_head a network namespace variable, and then it picks up a few associated variables. The functions: dev_getbyhwaddr dev_getfirsthwbytype dev_get_by_flags dev_get_by_name __dev_get_by_name dev_get_by_index __dev_get_by_index dev_ioctl dev_ethtool dev_load wireless_process_ioctl were modified to take a network namespace argument, and deal with it. vlan_ioctl_set and brioctl_set were modified so their hooks will receive a network namespace argument. So basically anthing in the core of the network stack that was affected to by the change of dev_base was modified to handle multiple network namespaces. The rest of the network stack was simply modified to explicitly use &init_net the initial network namespace. This can be fixed when those components of the network stack are modified to handle multiple network namespaces. For now the ifindex generator is left global. Fundametally ifindex numbers are per namespace, or else we will have corner case problems with migration when we get that far. At the same time there are assumptions in the network stack that the ifindex of a network device won't change. Making the ifindex number global seems a good compromise until the network stack can cope with ifindex changes when you change namespaces, and the like. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Robert Olsson 提交于
As noted by Christoph Hellwig, pktgen was the only user so it can now be removed. [ Add missing cases caught by Adrian Bunk. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: NRobert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 22 8月, 2007 4 次提交
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由 David Wilder 提交于
Placing a kprobe on "bc" instruction (s390/s390x) can cause an oops. The instruction length is encoded into the first two bits of the s390 instruction. Kprobe is incorrectly computing the instruction length. The instruction length is used for determining what type of "fix-up" is needed for conditional branch instruction. The problem can bee seen by placing a kprobe on a "bc" instruction that will not branch. The results is that Kprobe incorrectly computes the new instruction pointer (psw.addr) after single stepping the instruction. The problem is corrected with this patch. Signed-off-by: NDavid Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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由 Michael Holzheu 提交于
hypfs removes the whole hypfs directory tree and creates a new one, when a process triggers an update by writing to the "update" attribute. When removing and creating files, it is necessary to lock the inode of the parent directory where the files live. Currently hypfs does not lock the parent inode, which can lead to inode corruption. This patch: * Introduces correct locking * Fixes i_nlink reference counting for inodes, when creating directories * Adds info printk, when hypfs filesystem has been mounted Signed-off-by: NMichael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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由 Christian Borntraeger 提交于
The instruction table for b2 opcodes was missing an opfrag value for the cpya instruction. All instructions specified after cpya were not considered by the disassembler. The fix is simple and obvious - add the opfrag field to the cpya instruction. Signed-off-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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由 Michael Holzheu 提交于
There are several s390 diagnose calls, which must be executed below the 2GB memory boundary. In order to enforce this, those diagnoses must be compiled into the kernel. Currently diag 14 can be called within the vmur kernel module from addresses above 2GB. This leads to specification exceptions. This patch moves diag10, diag14 and diag210 into the new diag.c file. Signed-off-by: NMichael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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- 10 8月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
0437e109 removes the migration cost init code. Remove the s390 leftovers as well. Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Michael Holzheu 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMichael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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