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Lucas Correia Villa Real
0367a8d37a [ARM] 3266/1: S3C2400 - adds macro S3C24XX
Patch from Lucas Correia Villa Real

This patch defines S3C2400 memory map and adds a S3C24XX macro for
common resources between S3C2400, S3C2410 and S3C2440 cpus.

Signed-off-by: Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-26 15:20:50 +00:00
Jes Sorensen
139366a093 [IA64-SGI] XPC remove unnecessary GFP_DMA flag
Remove the GFP_DMA flag from XPC kmalloc() calls.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-24 15:49:49 -08:00
Len Brown
9fdb62af92 [ACPI] merge 3549 4320 4485 4588 4980 5483 5651 acpica asus fops pnpacpi branches into release
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-01-24 17:52:48 -05:00
Jack Steiner
79c83bd15a [IA64] Scaling fix for simultaneous unaligned accesses
Eliminate a hot shared cacheline that occurs if multiple cpus are
taking unaligned exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-24 14:39:50 -08:00
Takashi Iwai
dc64161343 [IA64-SGI] sn_dma_alloc_coherent should use gfp flags
Takashi helped us track down a bad page state bug we thought was coming
from alsa.  It turns out we weren't paying attention to the gfp flags
that were passed in to sn_dma_alloc_coherent().

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
2006-01-24 14:30:56 -08:00
Keith Owens
2a792058c3 [IA64] Set the correct default OS status in the MCA handler
sos->os_status is set to a default value of IA64_MCA_COLD_BOOT for an
MCA, but then is incorrectly overwritten with IA64_MCA_SAME_CONTEXT (0).
This makes SAL think that all MCAs have been recovered.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-24 11:50:07 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
40727198bf [SUNGEM]: Make PM of PHYs more reliable (#2)
On my latest laptop, I've had occasional PHY dead on wakeup from
sleep... the PHY would be totally unresponsive even to toggling the hard
reset line until the machine is powered down... Looking closely at the
code, I found some possible issues in the way we setup the MDIO lines
during suspend along with slight divergences from what Darwin does when
resetting it that may explain the problem. That patch change these and
the problem appear to be gone for me at least... I also fixed an mdelay
-> msleep while I was at it to the pmac feature code that is called
when toggling the PHY reset line since sungem doesn't call it in an
atomic context anymore.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>b
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-23 16:30:04 -08:00
Kyle McMartin
f671c45df2 [PARISC] Arch-specific compat signals
Add enough arch-specific compat signals code to enable parisc64
to compile and boot out of the mainline tree. There are likely still
many dragons here, but this is a start to squashing the last
big difference between the mainline tree and the parisc-linux tree.
The remaining bugs can be squashed as they come up.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-22 20:57:42 -05:00
Helge Deller
81a3de3efd [PARISC] Use DEBUG_KERNEL to catch used-after-free __init data
Use CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL to catch kernel code which tries to access
__init data after it is freed. When CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is not set
this also cleans up a WARN_ON at boot time. Also remove some dead
code from mm/init.c

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-22 20:26:55 -05:00
Helge Deller
1bcdd85482 [PARISC] Add CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA to protect read-only data
Add the parisc version of the "mark rodata section read only" patches.
Based on code from and Signed-off-by Arjan van de Ven
<arjan@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-22 20:26:54 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
a2bb214dcd [PARISC] Remove {,un}lock_kernel from perf ioctl
Remove the lock_kernel/unlock_kernel pair in the ioctl method. It
plainly wasn't protecting anything.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-22 20:26:52 -05:00
Kyle McMartin
85509c0007 [PARISC] Add chassis_power_off routine
Define a chassis_power_off routine that machines which have a way
to turn off the power supply can hook into. Formerly they were
using pm_power_off, which is now being used by generic code. Make
lasi.c use chassis_power_off instead of pm_power_off.

Note, all machines need to call machine_power_off so that the
switch can power off the machine, though halt -p may not necessarily
be able to work properly on the machine.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-22 20:26:50 -05:00
Kyle McMartin
526110f8c8 [PARISC] Remove obsolete _hlt cruft
Remove a bunch of obsolete code from process.c, these routines were
likely imported from the i386 version of process.c when the port
started. The routines are only used in floppy.c, which I seriously
doubt will ever work on parisc, due to architectural assumptions.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-22 20:26:48 -05:00
Kyle McMartin
9073315bbc [PARISC] Move pm_power_off export to process.c
Move the EXPORT_SYMBOL() of pm_power_off from parisc_ksyms.c to the
location of its definition in process.c

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-22 20:26:46 -05:00
Helge Deller
96629c0b11 [PARISC] Clean up compiler warning in pci.c
Avoid compiler warning for unused variables on 32bit kernels by
conditionalizing the local variables on CONFIG_64BIT. PCI_HOST_ADDR()
only uses the hba argument on 64bit compiles.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-22 20:26:43 -05:00
Kyle McMartin
10992092a8 [PARISC] Use F_EXTEND() for COMMAND_GLOBAL
Instead of wrapping the define of COMMAND_GLOBAL in #ifdef __LP64__
use the F_EXTEND() macro defined in asm/io.h, which is the preferred
way of extending mmio space addresses for either 32 or 64 bit machines.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-22 20:26:41 -05:00
James Bottomley
370361f884 [PARISC] Fix floating point invalid exception trap handler
Fix our trap handler to issue the correct floating point exception
for both types of invalid trap.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-22 20:26:39 -05:00
Helge Deller
c475eea292 [PARISC] Drop unused do_check_pgt_cache()
Drop the unused do_check_pgt_cache routine from mm/init.c and its
prototype in asm/pgalloc.h

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-22 20:26:37 -05:00
Grant Grundler
2c9aadabf4 [PARISC] Remove unnecessary extern declarations from asm/pci.h
Remove two unnecessary extern declarations from asm/pci.h.
They collide with what gcc4.0 assumed was static (and should be static).
Found by Joel Soete.

Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-22 20:26:34 -05:00
Helge Deller
cb6fc18e9c [PARISC] Use kzalloc and other janitor-style cleanups
Helge,
  o Convert a bunch of kmalloc/memset uses to kzalloc.
  o pci.c: Add some __read_mostly annotations.
  o pci.c: Move constant pci_post_reset_delay to asm/pci.h
  o grfioctl.h: Add A4450A to comment of CRT_ID_VISUALIZE_EG.
  o Add some consts to perf.c/perf_images.h

Matthew,
  o sticore.c: Add some consts to suppress compile warnings.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-22 20:26:31 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
a1c7444395 [PARISC] Update b180_defconfig
Update b180_defconfig to be more usable on other similar machines.
Enabling Lasi 82596, Harmony, Mux console, CCIO, HPPB, etc., means
this config is suitable for not only BXXX machines, but also CXXX
and JXXX class machines.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-22 20:26:29 -05:00
David S. Miller
4415863773 [SPARC]: Increase NR_SYSCALLS to 299
To let new syscalls through.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-22 12:12:01 -08:00
Matthew Wilcox
ce33941f02 [PARISC] Make flush_tlb_all_local take a void *
Make flush_tlb_all_local take a void * so it doesn't have to be cast
when using on_each_cpu().  This becomes a problem when on_each_cpu
is a macro.

Also remove the prototype of flush_tlb_all_local from .c files.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-21 20:46:31 -05:00
Russell King
20a2c88f50 [ARM] Fix ioremap.c vfree type warning
arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c:145: warning: passing argument 1 of 'vfree' makes pointer from integer without a cast

resulted from commit id 9d4ae7276a

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-20 20:52:50 +00:00
David S. Miller
3ee68c4af3 [SPARC64]: Use compat_sys_futimesat in 32-bit syscall table.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-20 01:49:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
02829f7377 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2006-01-19 22:17:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
497992917e Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2006-01-19 22:16:58 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
cdc9cc1d74 [CPUFREQ] X86_GX_SUSPMOD must depend on PCI
This patch fixes the following compile error:

...
  CC      arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.o
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.c: In function 'gx_detect_chipset':
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.c:193: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_match_id'
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.c:193: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
make[3]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/gx-suspmod.o] Error 1

<--  snip  -->

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-01-19 16:44:27 -08:00
John Hawkes
386d1d50c8 [IA64] eliminate softlockup warning
Fix an unnecessary softlockup watchdog warning in the ia64
uncached_build_memmap() that occurs occasionally at 256p and always at
512p.  The problem occurs at boot time.

Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-19 11:18:25 -08:00
Jes Sorensen
60f1c4443c [IA64] sem2mutex: arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c
Migrate perfmon from using an old semaphore to a completion handler.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-19 11:17:56 -08:00
Jes Sorensen
92ff2ecd0d [IA64] sem2mutex: arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c
Migrate arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32 to using a mutex for mmap protection.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-19 11:17:33 -08:00
Al Viro
fa1b4f91d6 [ARM] safer handling of syscall table padding
ARM entry-common.S needs to know syscall table size; in itself that would
not be a problem, but there's an additional constraint - some of the
instructions using it want a constant that would be a multiple of 4.
So we have to pad syscall table with sys_ni_syscall and that's where
the trouble begins.  .rept pseudo-op wants a constant expression for
number of repetitions and subtraction of two labels (before and after
syscall table) doesn't always get simplified to constant early enough
for .rept.  If labels end up in different frags, we lose.  And while
the frag size is large enough (slightly below 4Kb), the syscall table
is about 1/3 of that.  We used to get away with that, but the recent
changes had been enough to trigger the breakage.

Proper fix is simple: have a macro (CALL(x)) to populate the table
instead of using explicit .long x and the first time we include calls.S
have it defined to .equ NR_syscalls,NR_syscalls+1.  Then we can find
the proper amount of padding on the first inclusion simply by looking
at NR_syscalls at that time.  And that will be constant, no matter what.

Moreover, the same trick kills the need of having an estimate of padded
NR_syscalls - it will be calculated for free at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-19 12:57:01 +00:00
Russell King
ea49772598 [ARM] Remove CONFIG_BROKEN=y from defconfigs
Remove CONFIG_BROKEN=y from the ARM defconfigs, and update with
the appropriate changes.  This results in only some unselected
configuration symbols being removed - hence no material effect
on the configuration.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-19 12:32:54 +00:00
David S. Miller
2d7d5f0511 [SPARC]: Add support for *at(), ppoll, and pselect syscalls.
This also includes by necessity _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support,
which actually resulted in a lot of cleanups.

The sparc signal handling code is quite a mess and I should
clean it up some day.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-19 02:42:49 -08:00
Alan Cox
da9bb1d27b [PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support code
This is a subset of the bluesmoke project core code, stripped of the NMI work
which isn't ready to merge and some of the "interesting" proc functionality
that needs reworking or just has no place in kernel.  It requires no core
kernel changes except the added scrub functions already posted.

The goal is to merge further functionality only after the core code is
accepted and proven in the base kernel, and only at the point the upstream
extras are really ready to merge.

From: doug thompson <norsk5@xmission.com>

  This converts EDAC to sysfs and is the final chunk neccessary before EDAC
  has a stable user space API and can be considered for submission into the
  base kernel.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: doug thompson <norsk5@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:31 -08:00
David Woodhouse
3213e913b0 [PATCH] Add pselect/ppoll system calls on i386
Add the sys_pselect6() and sys_poll() calls to the i386 syscall table.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
Jeff Dike
36a7878a22 [PATCH] uml: use generic sys_rt_sigsuspend
Use the generic sys_rt_sigsuspend.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
Jeff Dike
2fc10620e7 [PATCH] uml: add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support
Add support for TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK.  I copy the i386 handling of the flag.
sys_sigsuspend is also changed to follow i386.
Also a bit of cleanup -
   turn an if into a switch
   get rid of a couple more emacs formatting comments

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
David Woodhouse
f27201da5c [PATCH] TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpc
Implement the TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag in the new arch/powerpc kernel, for
both 32-bit and 64-bit system call paths.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
David Howells
283828f3c1 [PATCH] Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for i386
Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK as added by David Woodhouse's patch entitled:

        [PATCH] 2/3 Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpc
        [PATCH] 3/3 Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend

It does the following:

 (1) Declares TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for i386.

 (2) Invokes it over to do_signal() when TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is set.

 (3) Makes do_signal() support TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK, using the signal mask saved
     in current->saved_sigmask.

 (4) Discards sys_rt_sigsuspend() from the arch, using the generic one instead.

 (5) Makes sys_sigsuspend() save the signal mask and set TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
     rather than attempting to fudge the return registers.

 (6) Makes sys_sigsuspend() return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than looping
     intrinsically.

 (7) Makes setup_frame(), setup_rt_frame() and handle_signal() return 0 or
     -EFAULT rather than true/false to be consistent with the rest of the
     kernel.

Due to the fact do_signal() is then only called from one place:

 (8) Makes do_signal() no longer have a return value is it was just being
     ignored; force_sig() takes care of this.

 (9) Discards the old sigmask argument to do_signal() as it's no longer
     necessary.

(10) Makes do_signal() static.

(11) Marks the second argument to do_notify_resume() as unused. The unused
     argument should remain in the middle as the arguments are passed in as
     registers, and the ordering is specific in entry.S

Given the way do_signal() is now no longer called from sys_{,rt_}sigsuspend(),
they no longer need access to the exception frame, and so can just take
arguments normally.

This patch depends on sys_rt_sigsuspend patch.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
David Howells
a411aee96e [PATCH] Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FRV
Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK as added by David Woodhouse's patch entitled:

        [PATCH] 2/3 Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpc
        [PATCH] 3/3 Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend

It does the following:

 (1) Declares TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FRV.

 (2) Invokes it over to do_signal() when TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK is set.

 (3) Makes do_signal() support TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK, using the signal mask saved
     in current->saved_sigmask.

 (4) Discards sys_rt_sigsuspend() from the arch, using the generic one instead.

 (5) Makes sys_sigsuspend() save the signal mask and set TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
     rather than attempting to fudge the return registers.

 (6) Makes sys_sigsuspend() return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than looping
     intrinsically.

 (7) Makes setup_frame(), setup_rt_frame() and handle_signal() return 0 or
     -EFAULT rather than true/false to be consistent with the rest of the
      kernel.

Due to the fact do_signal() is then only called from one place:

 (8) Make do_signal() no longer have a return value is it was just being
     ignored; force_sig() takes care of this.

 (9) Discards the old sigmask argument to do_signal() as it's no longer
     necessary.

This patch depends on the FRV signalling patches as well as the
sys_rt_sigsuspend patch.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
David Woodhouse
150256d8aa [PATCH] Generic sys_rt_sigsuspend()
The TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK flag allows us to have a generic implementation of
sys_rt_sigsuspend() instead of duplicating it for each architecture.  This
provides such an implementation and makes arch/powerpc use it.

It also tidies up the ppc32 sys_sigsuspend() to use TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper
a60fc5190a [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: x86_64
Wire up the x86_64 syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper
4f08550723 [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: i386
Wire up the x86 syscalls

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper
5590ff0d55 [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: core
Here is a series of patches which introduce in total 13 new system calls
which take a file descriptor/filename pair instead of a single file
name.  These functions, openat etc, have been discussed on numerous
occasions.  They are needed to implement race-free filesystem traversal,
they are necessary to implement a virtual per-thread current working
directory (think multi-threaded backup software), etc.

We have in glibc today implementations of the interfaces which use the
/proc/self/fd magic.  But this code is rather expensive.  Here are some
results (similar to what Jim Meyering posted before).

The test creates a deep directory hierarchy on a tmpfs filesystem.  Then
rm -fr is used to remove all directories.  Without syscall support I get
this:

real    0m31.921s
user    0m0.688s
sys     0m31.234s

With syscall support the results are much better:

real    0m20.699s
user    0m0.536s
sys     0m20.149s

The interfaces are for obvious reasons currently not much used.  But they'll
be used.  coreutils (and Jeff's posixutils) are already using them.
Furthermore, code like ftw/fts in libc (maybe even glob) will also start using
them.  I expect a patch to make follow soon.  Every program which is walking
the filesystem tree will benefit.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
a374a48ffb [PATCH] uml ubd code: fix a bit of whitespace
Correct a bit of whitespace problems while working here.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:21 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
4833aff757 [PATCH] uml: allow again to move backing file and to override saved location
When the user specifies both a COW file and its backing file, if the previous
backing file is not found, currently UML tries again to use it and fails.

This can be corrected by changing same_backing_files() return value in that
case, so that the caller will try to change the COW file to point to the new
location, as already done in other cases.

Additionally, given the change in the meaning of the func, change its name,
invert its return value, so all values are inverted except when
stat(from_cow,&buf2) fails.  And add some comments and two minor bugfixes -
remove a fd leak (return err rather than goto out) and a repeated check.

Tested well.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:21 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
ce2d2aedcc [PATCH] uml: arch Kconfig menu cleanups
*) mark as "EXPERIMENTAL" various items that either aren't very stable or
   that are actively crashing the setup of users which don't really need them
   (i.e.  HIGHMEM and 3-level pagetables on x86 - nobody needs either,
   everybody reports "I'm using it and getting trouble").

*) move net/Kconfig near to the rest of network configurations, and
   drivers/block/Kconfig near "Block layer" submenu.

*) it's useless and doesn't work well to force NETDEVICES on and to disable
   the prompt like it's done.  Better remove the attempt, and change that to a
   simple "default y if UML".

*) drop the warning about "report problems about HPPFS" - it's redundant
   anyway, as that's the usual procedure, and HPPFS users are especially
   technical (i.e.  they know reporting bugs is _good_).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:21 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
b63162939c [PATCH] uml: avoid malloc to sleep in atomic sections
Ugly trick to help make malloc not sleeping - we can't do anything else.  But
this is not yet optimal, since spinlock don't trigger in_atomic() when
preemption is disabled.

Also, even if ugly, this was already used in one place, and was even more
bogus.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:21 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
b6a2b13778 [PATCH] uml: sigio code - reduce spinlock hold time
In a previous patch I shifted an allocation to being atomic.

In this patch, a better but more intrusive solution is implemented, i.e.  hold
the lock only when really needing it, especially not over pipe operations, nor
over the culprit allocation.

Additionally, while at it, add a missing kfree in the failure path, and make
sure that if we fail in forking, write_sigio_pid is -1 and not, say, -ENOMEM.

And fix whitespace, at least for things I was touching anyway.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:21 -08:00