- 20 Feb, 2009 12 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: improve page fault handling robustness The 'PF_RSVD' flag (bit 3) of the page-fault error_code is a relatively recent addition to x86 CPUs, so the 32-bit do_fault() implementation never had it. This flag gets set when the CPU detects nonzero values in any reserved bits of the page directory entries. Extend the existing 64-bit check for PF_RSVD in do_page_fault() to 32-bit too. If we detect such a fault then we print a more informative oops and the pagetables. This unifies the code some more, removes an ugly #ifdef and improves the 32-bit page fault code robustness a bit. It slightly increases the 32-bit kernel text size. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: cleanup Instead of an ugly, open-coded, #ifdef-ed vm86 related legacy check in do_page_fault(), put it into the check_v8086_mode() helper function and merge it with an existing #ifdef. Also, simplify the code flow a tiny bit in the helper. No code changed: arch/x86/mm/fault.o: text data bss dec hex filename 2711 12 12 2735 aaf fault.o.before 2711 12 12 2735 aaf fault.o.after Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: no functionality changed Factor out the opcode checker into a helper inline. The code got a tiny bit smaller: text data bss dec hex filename 4632 32 24 4688 1250 fault.o.before 4618 32 24 4674 1242 fault.o.after And it got cleaner / easier to review as well. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: cleanup, no code changed Clean up various small details, which can be correctness checked automatically: - tidy up the include file section - eliminate unnecessary includes - introduce show_signal_msg() to clean up code flow - standardize the code flow - standardize comments and other style details - more cleanups, pointed out by checkpatch No code changed on either 32-bit nor 64-bit: arch/x86/mm/fault.o: text data bss dec hex filename 4632 32 24 4688 1250 fault.o.before 4632 32 24 4688 1250 fault.o.after the md5 changed due to a change in a single instruction: 2e8a8241e7f0d69706776a5a26c90bc0 fault.o.before.asm c5c3d36e725586eb74f0e10692f0193e fault.o.after.asm Because a __LINE__ reference in a WARN_ONCE() has changed. On 32-bit a few stack offsets changed - no code size difference nor any functionality difference. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'tip/x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into x86/mm
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: future-proof the split_large_page() function Linus noticed that split_large_page() is not safe wrt. the PAT bit: it is bit 12 on the 1GB and 2MB page table level (_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE), and it is bit 7 on the 4K page table level (_PAGE_BIT_PAT). Currently it is not a problem because we never set _PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE on any of the large-page mappings - but should this happen in the future the split_large_page() would silently lift bit 12 into the lowlevel 4K pte and would start corrupting the physical page frame offset. Not fun. So add a debug warning, to make sure if something ever sets the PAT bit then this function gets updated too. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix to prevent hard lockup on bad PMD permissions If the PMD does not have the correct permissions for a page access, but the PTE does, the spurious fault handler will mistake the fault as a lazy TLB transaction. This will result in an infinite loop of: fault -> spurious_fault check (pass) -> return to code -> fault This patch adds a check and a warn on if the PTE passes the permissions but the PMD does not. [ Updated: Ingo Molnar suggested using WARN_ONCE with some text ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Vegard Nossum authored
Impact: Cleanup. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Steven Rostedt found a bug in where in his modified kernel ftrace was unable to modify the kernel text, due to the PMD itself having been marked read-only as well in split_large_page(). The fix, suggested by Linus, is to not try to 'clone' the reference protection of a huge-page, but to use the standard (and permissive) page protection bits of KERNPG_TABLE. The 'cloning' makes sense for the ptes but it's a confused and incorrect concept at the page table level - because the pagetable entry is a set of all ptes and hence cannot 'clone' any single protection attribute - the ptes can be any mixture of protections. With the permissive KERNPG_TABLE, even if the pte protections get changed after this point (due to ftrace doing code-patching or other similar activities like kprobes), the resulting combined protections will still be correct and the pte's restrictive (or permissive) protections will control it. Also update the comment. This bug was there for a long time but has not caused visible problems before as it needs a rather large read-only area to trigger. Steve possibly hacked his kernel with some really large arrays or so. Anyway, the bug is definitely worth fixing. [ Huang Ying also experienced problems in this area when writing the EFI code, but the real bug in split_large_page() was not realized back then. ] Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reported-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Alok N Kataria authored
Impact: fix time warps under vmware Similar to the check for TSC going backwards in the TSC clocksource, we also need this check for VMI clocksource. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
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- 19 Feb, 2009 28 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 5405/1: ep93xx: remove unused gesbc9312.h header [ARM] 5404/1: Fix condition in arm_elf_read_implies_exec() to set READ_IMPLIES_EXEC [ARM] omap: fix clock reparenting in omap2_clk_set_parent() [ARM] 5403/1: pxa25x_ep_fifo_flush() *ep->reg_udccs always set to 0 [ARM] 5402/1: fix a case of wrap-around in sanity_check_meminfo() [ARM] 5401/1: Orion: fix edge triggered GPIO interrupt support [ARM] 5400/1: Add support for inverted rdy_busy pin for Atmel nand device controller [ARM] 5391/1: AT91: Enable GPIO clocks earlier [ARM] 5390/1: AT91: Watchdog fixes [ARM] 5398/1: Add Wan ZongShun to MAINTAINERS for W90P910 [ARM] omap: fix _omap2_clksel_get_src_field() [ARM] omap: fix omap2_divisor_to_clksel() error return value
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'x86/untangle2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen into x86/headers
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, mce: fix ifdef for 64bit thermal apic vector clear on shutdown x86, mce: use force_sig_info to kill process in machine check x86, mce: reinitialize per cpu features on resume x86, rcu: fix strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: limit the number of loops the ring buffer self test can make tracing: have function trace select kallsyms tracing: disable tracing while testing ring buffer tracing/function-graph-tracer: trace the idle tasks
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git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] fix "mem=" handling in case of standby memory [S390] Fix timeval regression on s390 [S390] sclp: handle empty event buffers
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: sound: virtuoso: revert "do not overwrite EEPROM on Xonar D2/D2X" ALSA: jack - Use card->shortname for input name ALSA: usb-audio - Workaround for misdetected sample rate with CM6207 ALSA: usb-audio - Fix non-continuous rate detection sound: usb-audio: fix uninitialized variable with M-Audio MIDI interfaces Revert "Sound: hda - Restore PCI configuration space with interrupts off"
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Hartley Sweeten authored
Remove the gesbc9312.h header since it is unused. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
Impact: clenaup Linker script will put startup_32 at predefined address so using startup_32 will not bloat the code size. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
Impact: clenaup Linker script will put startup_32 at predefined address so using ENTRY will not bloat the code size. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
Impact: cleanup We are in setup stage so we use GLOBAL instead of ENTRY and do not increase code size. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
Impact: cleanup Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
Impact: cleanup There was an attempt to bring build-time checking for missed ENTRY_X86/END_X86 and KPROBE... pairs. Using them will add messy in code. Get just rid of them. This commit could be easily restored if the need appear in future. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
If the code is time critical and this entry is called from other places we use ENTRY to have it globally defined and especially aligned. Contrary we have some snippets which are size critical. So we use plane ".globl name; name:" directive. Introduce GLOBAL macro for this. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Makito SHIOKAWA authored
READ_IMPLIES_EXEC must be set when: o binary _is_ an executable stack (i.e. not EXSTACK_DISABLE_X) o processor architecture is _under_ ARMv6 (XN bit is supported from ARMv6) Signed-off-by: Makito SHIOKAWA <lkhmkt@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Heiko Carstens authored
Standby memory detected with the sclp interface gets always registered with add_memory calls without considering the limitationt that the "mem=" kernel paramater implies. So fix this and only register standby memory that is below the specified limit. This fixes zfcpdump since it uses "mem=32M". In case there is appr. 2GB standby memory present all of usable memory would be used for the struct pages needed for standby memory. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Christian Borntraeger authored
commit aa5e97ce [PATCH] improve precision of process accounting. Introduced a timing regression: -bash-3.2# time ls real 0m0.006s user 0m1.754s sys 0m1.094s The problem was introduced by an error in cputime_to_timeval. Cputime is now 1/4096 microsecond, therefore, we have to divide the remainder with 4096 to get the microseconds. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Peter Oberparleiter authored
Handle a malformed hardware response which some versions of the Support Element (SE) may present during SE restart and which otherwise would result in an endless loop in function sclp_dispatch_evbufs. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Russell King authored
When changing the parent of a clock, it is necessary to keep the clock use counts balanced otherwise things the parent state will get corrupted. Since we already disable and re-enable the clock, we might as well use the recursive versions instead. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Takashi Iwai authored
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Takashi Iwai authored
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Takashi Iwai authored
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Hiroshi Shimamoto authored
Impact: cleanup asmlinkage for sys_rt_sigreturn() no longer exists in arch/x86/kernel/signal.c. Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Roel Kluin authored
*ep->reg_udccs is always set to 0. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Nicolas Pitre authored
In the non highmem case, if two memory banks of 1GB each are provided, the second bank would evade suppression since its virtual base would be 0. Fix this by disallowing any memory bank which virtual base address is found to be lower than PAGE_OFFSET. Reported-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'tip/tracing/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent
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Clemens Ladisch authored
This reverts commit 7e86c0e6 ("do not overwrite EEPROM on Xonar D2/D2X") because it did not actually help with the problem. More user reports show that the overwriting of the EEPROM is not triggered by using this driver but by installing Linux, and that the installation of any other operating system (even one without any CMI8788 driver) has the same effect. In other words, the presence of this driver does not have any effect on the occurrence of the error. (So far, the available evidence seems to point to a BIOS bug.) Furthermore, it turns out that the EEPROM chip is protected against stray write commands by the command format and by requiring a separate write-enable command, so the error scenario in the previous commit (that SPI writes can be misinterpreted as an EEPROM write command) is not even theoretically possible. The mixer control that was removed as a consequence of the previous commit can only be partially emulated in userspace, which also means it cannot be seen be the in-kernel OSS API emulation, so it is better to revert that change. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Jaswinder Singh Rajput authored
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: prevent deadlock if ring buffer gets corrupted This patch adds a paranoid check to make sure the ring buffer consumer does not go into an infinite loop. Since the ring buffer has been set to read only, the consumer should not loop for more than the ring buffer size. A check is added to make sure the consumer does not loop more than the ring buffer size. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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