1. 27 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  2. 26 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  3. 22 2月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [ARM] 3105/4: ARM EABI: new syscall entry convention · 3f2829a3
      Nicolas Pitre 提交于
      Patch from Nicolas Pitre
      
      For a while we wanted to change the way syscalls were called on ARM.
      Instead of encoding the syscall number in the swi instruction which
      requires reading back the instruction from memory to extract that number
      and polluting the data cache, it was decided that simply storing the
      syscall number into r7 would be more efficient. Since this represents
      an ABI change then making that change at the same time as EABI support
      is the right thing to do.
      
      It is now expected that EABI user space binaries put the syscall number
      into r7 and use "swi 0" to call the kernel. Syscall register argument
      are also expected to have "EABI arrangement" i.e. 64-bit arguments
      should be put in a pair of registers from an even register number.
      
      Example with long ftruncate64(unsigned int fd, loff_t length):
      
      	legacy ABI:
      	- put fd into r0
      	- put length into r1-r2
      	- use "swi #(0x900000 + 194)" to call the kernel
      
      	new ARM EABI:
      	- put fd into r0
      	- put length into r2-r3 (skipping over r1)
      	- put 194 into r7
      	- use "swi 0" to call the kernel
      
      Note that it is important to use 0 for the swi argument as backward
      compatibility with legacy ABI user space relies on this.
      The syscall macros in asm-arm/unistd.h were also updated to support
      both ABIs and implement the right call method automatically.
      Signed-off-by: NNicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
      Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      3f2829a3
  5. 13 1月, 2006 2 次提交
  6. 04 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [ARM] Cleanup ARM includes · 78ff18a4
      Russell King 提交于
      arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S has contained a comment suggesting
      that asm/hardware.h and asm/arch/irqs.h should be moved into the
      asm/arch/entry-macro.S include.  So move the includes to these
      two files as required.
      
      Add missing includes (asm/hardware.h, asm/io.h) to asm/arch/system.h
      includes which use those facilities, and remove asm/io.h from
      kernel/process.c.
      
      Remove other unnecessary includes from arch/arm/kernel, arch/arm/mm
      and arch/arm/mach-footbridge.
      Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      78ff18a4
  7. 31 10月, 2005 1 次提交
  8. 30 10月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] mm: arm ready for split ptlock · 69b04754
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      Prepare arm for the split page_table_lock: three issues.
      
      Signal handling's preserve and restore of iwmmxt context currently involves
      reading and writing that context to and from user space, while holding
      page_table_lock to secure the user page(s) against kswapd.  If we split the
      lock, then the structure might span two pages, secured by to read into and
      write from a kernel stack buffer, copying that out and in without locking (the
      structure is 160 bytes in size, and here we're near the top of the kernel
      stack).  Or would the overhead be noticeable?
      
      arm_syscall's cmpxchg emulation use pte_offset_map_lock, instead of
      pte_offset_map and mm-wide page_table_lock; and strictly, it should now also
      take mmap_sem before descending to pmd, to guard against another thread
      munmapping, and the page table pulled out beneath this thread.
      
      Updated two comments in fault-armv.c.  adjust_pte is interesting, since its
      modification of a pte in one part of the mm depends on the lock held when
      calling update_mmu_cache for a pte in some other part of that mm.  This can't
      be done with a split page_table_lock (and we've already taken the lowest lock
      in the hierarchy here): so we'll have to disable split on arm, unless
      CONFIG_CPU_CACHE_VIPT to ensures adjust_pte never used.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      69b04754
  9. 28 10月, 2005 1 次提交
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  18. 05 5月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] ARM: Fix kernel stack offset calculations · 4f7a1812
      Russell King 提交于
      Various places in the ARM kernel implicitly assumed that kernel
      stacks are always 8K due to hard coded constants.  Replace these
      constants with definitions.
      
      Correct the allowable range of kernel stack pointer values within
      the allocation.  Arrange for the entire kernel stack to be zeroed,
      not just the upper 4K if CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE is set.
      Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      4f7a1812
  19. 30 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] ARM: 2651/3: kernel helpers for NPTL support · 2d2669b6
      Nicolas Pitre 提交于
      Patch from Nicolas Pitre
      
      This patch entirely reworks the kernel assistance for NPTL on ARM.
      In particular this provides an efficient way to retrieve the TLS
      value and perform atomic operations without any instruction emulation
      nor special system call.  This even allows for pre ARMv6 binaries to
      be forward compatible with SMP systems without any penalty.
      The problematic and performance critical operations are performed
      through segment of kernel provided user code reachable from user space
      at a fixed address in kernel memory.  Those fixed entry points are
      within the vector page so we basically get it for free as no extra
      memory page is required and nothing else may be mapped at that
      location anyway.
      This is different from (but doesn't preclude) a full blown VDSO
      implementation, however a VDSO would prevent some assembly tricks with
      constants that allows for efficient branching to those code segments.
      And since those code segments only use a few cycles before returning to
      user code, the overhead of a VDSO far call would add a significant
      overhead to such minimalistic operations.
      The ARM_NR_set_tls syscall also changed number.  This is done for two
      reasons:
      1) this patch changes the way the TLS value was previously meant to be
         retrieved, therefore we ensure whatever library using the old way
         gets fixed (they only exist in private tree at the moment since the
         NPTL work is still progressing).
      2) the previous number was allocated in a range causing an undefined
         instruction trap on kernels not supporting that syscall and it was
         determined that allocating it in a range returning -ENOSYS would be
         much nicer for libraries trying to determine if the feature is
         present or not.
      
      Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
      Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      2d2669b6
  20. 26 4月, 2005 1 次提交
  21. 17 4月, 2005 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] ARM: showregs · 652a12ef
      Russell King 提交于
      Fix show_regs() to provide a backtrace.  Provide a new __show_regs()
      function which implements the common subset of show_regs() and die().
      Add prototypes to asm-arm/system.h
      Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      652a12ef
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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