Machines with sun4c support are very rare these days, and noone
is using them for any practical purposes.
The sun4c support has been know broken for quite some time too.
So rather than trying to keep it up-to-date, lets get rid of it.
This allows us to do some very welcome cleanup of sparc32 support.
Updated the former sun4c specifc nmi (which was also used
for sun4m UP) to be a generic UP NMI.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 625d693e97 (linux-next)
"sparc64: Convert over to NO_BOOTMEM."
causes the following compile failure for sparc64 allnoconfig:
arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c:822:16: error: unused variable 'paddr'
arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c:1759:7: error: unused variable 'node'
arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c:809:12: error: 'memblock_nid_range' defined but not used
The paddr decl can easily be shuffled within the ifdef. The
memblock_nid_range is just a stub function for when NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
is off, but the only caller is within a NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES enabled
section, so we can simply delete it.
The unused "node" is slightly more interesting. In the case of
"# CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES is not set" we no longer get the
definition of:
#define NODE_DATA(nid) (node_data[nid])
from arch/sparc/include/asm/mmzone.h - but instead we get:
#define NODE_DATA(nid) (&contig_page_data)
from include/linux/mmzone.h -- and since the arg is ignored,
the thing really is unused. Rather than put in a confusing
looking __maybe_unused, simply splitting the declaration
from the assignment seemed to me to be the least offensive.
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There is no need, since nothing relevant to sparc64 makes
use of this value.
Noticed by Sam Ravnborg.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Conflicts:
arch/sparc/kernel/leon_smp.c
Merge mainline to get the nobootmem.c bug fix, for the sake
of the sparc64 NO_BOOTMEM conversion.
Resolve a small include line conflict in leon_smp.c
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Otherwise cpu_active_mask will not set, which lead to other issue.
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Eisele <konrad@gaisler.com>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Like the vm_brk() function, this is the same as "do_munmap()", except it
does the VM locking for the caller.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Left-overs for an earlier iteration of the generic clock events patch removed.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The kernel uses l14 timers as clockevents. l10 timer is used
as clocksource if platform master_l10_counter isn't constantly
zero. The clocksource is continuous, so it's possible to use
high resolution timers. l10 timer is also used as clockevent
on UP configurations.
This realization is for sun4m, sun4d, sun4c, microsparc-IIep
and LEON platforms. The appropriate LEON changes was made by
Konrad Eisele.
In case of sun4m's oneshot mode, profile irq is zeroed in
smp4m_percpu_timer_interrupt(). It is maybe
needless (double, triple etc overflow does nothing).
sun4d is able to have oneshot mode too, but I haven't
any way to test it. So code of its percpu timer handler
is made as much equal to the current code as possible.
The patch is tested on sun4m box in SMP mode by me,
and tested by Konrad on leon in up mode (leon smp
is broken atm - due to other reasons).
Signed-off-by: Tkhai Kirill <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Konrad Eisele <konrad@gaisler.com> [leon up]
[sam: revised patch to provide generic support for leon]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This struct holds platform specific config and is thus not
limited to irq stuff.
Do not let the name confuse us to think this is irq only.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The invocation of softirq is now handled by irq_exit(), so there is no
need for sparc64 to invoke it on the trap-return path. In fact, doing so
is a bug because if the trap occurred in the idle loop, this invocation
can result in lockdep-RCU failures. The problem is that RCU ignores idle
CPUs, and the sparc64 trap-return path to the softirq handlers fails to
tell RCU that the CPU must be considered non-idle while those handlers
are executing. This means that RCU is ignoring any RCU read-side critical
sections in those handlers, which in turn means that RCU-protected data
can be yanked out from under those read-side critical sections.
The shiny new lockdep-RCU ability to detect RCU read-side critical sections
that RCU is ignoring located this problem.
The fix is straightforward: Make sparc64 stop manually invoking the
softirq handlers.
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The DS driver registers as a subsys_initcall() but this can be too
early, in particular this risks registering before we've had a chance
to allocate and setup module_kset in kernel/params.c which is
performed also as a subsyts_initcall().
Register DS using device_initcall() insteal.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Pull sparc fixes from David Miller:
1) Build fix for LEON, from Sam Ravnborg.
2) Make the sparc side changes that go along with the infrastructure to
retry faults when blocking on a disk transfer. From Kautuk Consul.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
sparc32,leon: fix leon build
sparc/mm/fault_32.c: Port OOM changes to do_sparc_fault
sparc/mm/fault_64.c: Port OOM changes to do_sparc64_fault
Pull DMA mapping branch from Marek Szyprowski:
"Short summary for the whole series:
A few limitations have been identified in the current dma-mapping
design and its implementations for various architectures. There exist
more than one function for allocating and freeing the buffers:
currently these 3 are used dma_{alloc, free}_coherent,
dma_{alloc,free}_writecombine, dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent.
For most of the systems these calls are almost equivalent and can be
interchanged. For others, especially the truly non-coherent ones
(like ARM), the difference can be easily noticed in overall driver
performance. Sadly not all architectures provide implementations for
all of them, so the drivers might need to be adapted and cannot be
easily shared between different architectures. The provided patches
unify all these functions and hide the differences under the already
existing dma attributes concept. The thread with more references is
available here:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sh/msg09777.html
These patches are also a prerequisite for unifying DMA-mapping
implementation on ARM architecture with the common one provided by
dma_map_ops structure and extending it with IOMMU support. More
information is available in the following thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/12819
More works on dma-mapping framework are planned, especially in the
area of buffer sharing and managing the shared mappings (together with
the recently introduced dma_buf interface: commit d15bd7ee44
"dma-buf: Introduce dma buffer sharing mechanism").
The patches in the current set introduce a new alloc/free methods
(with support for memory attributes) in dma_map_ops structure, which
will later replace dma_alloc_coherent and dma_alloc_writecombine
functions."
People finally started piping up with support for merging this, so I'm
merging it as the last of the pending stuff from the merge window.
Looks like pohmelfs is going to wait for 3.5 and more external support
for merging.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping:
common: DMA-mapping: add NON-CONSISTENT attribute
common: DMA-mapping: add WRITE_COMBINE attribute
common: dma-mapping: introduce mmap method
common: dma-mapping: remove old alloc_coherent and free_coherent methods
Hexagon: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
Unicore32: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
Microblaze: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
SH: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
Alpha: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
SPARC: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
PowerPC: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
MIPS: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
X86 & IA64: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
common: dma-mapping: introduce generic alloc() and free() methods
Minimal fix to allow leon to be built.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Konrad Eisele <konrad@gaisler.com>
Cc: Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@gaisler.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit d065bd810b
(mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer) and
commit 37b23e0525
(x86,mm: make pagefault killable)
The above commits introduced changes into the x86 pagefault handler
for making the page fault handler retryable as well as killable.
These changes reduce the mmap_sem hold time, which is crucial
during OOM killer invocation.
Port these changes to 32-bit sparc.
Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit d065bd810b
(mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer) and
commit 37b23e0525
(x86,mm: make pagefault killable)
The above commits introduced changes into the x86 pagefault handler
for making the page fault handler retryable as well as killable.
These changes reduce the mmap_sem hold time, which is crucial
during OOM killer invocation.
Port these changes to 64-bit sparc.
Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull Sparc fixes from David Miller:
"One build regression and one serial probe regression fix on sparc."
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
serial/sunzilog: fix keyboard on SUN SPARCstation
sparc: pgtable_64: change include order
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux
Pull cpumask cleanups from Rusty Russell:
"(Somehow forgot to send this out; it's been sitting in linux-next, and
if you don't want it, it can sit there another cycle)"
I'm a sucker for things that actually delete lines of code.
Fix up trivial conflict in arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c, where Rusty fixed
a user of &cpu_online_map to be cpu_online_mask, but that code got
deleted by commit b21d55e98a ("ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch
function from kprobes").
* tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/rustyrussell/linux:
cpumask: remove old cpu_*_map.
documentation: remove references to cpu_*_map.
drivers/cpufreq/db8500-cpufreq: remove references to cpu_*_map.
remove references to cpu_*_map in arch/
Fix the following build breakage in v3.4-rc1:
CC arch/sparc/kernel/cpu.o
In file included from /home/aaro/git/linux/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h:15:0,
from /home/aaro/git/linux/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable.h:4,
from arch/sparc/kernel/cpu.c:15:
include/asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h:13:16: error: unknown type name 'pgd_t'
include/asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h:25:28: error: unknown type name 'pgd_t'
include/asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h:26:27: error: unknown type name 'pgd_t'
include/asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h:27:31: error: unknown type name 'pgd_t'
include/asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h:28:30: error: unknown type name 'pgd_t'
include/asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h:38:34: error: unknown type name 'pgd_t'
In file included from /home/aaro/git/linux/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h:783:0,
from /home/aaro/git/linux/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable.h:4,
from arch/sparc/kernel/cpu.c:15:
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function 'pgd_none_or_clear_bad':
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:258:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'pgd_none' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:260:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'pgd_bad' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function 'pud_none_or_clear_bad':
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:269:6: error: request for member 'pgd' in something not a structure or union
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull Sam Ravnborg's sparc32 build fixes from David Miller.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
sparc32: fix fallout from system.h removal
Pull kbuild changes from Michal Marek:
- Unification of cmd_uimage among archs that use it
- make headers_check tries harder before reporting a missing
<linux/types.h> include
- kbuild portability fix for shells that do not support echo -e
- make clean descends into samples/
- setlocalversion grep fix
- modpost typo fix
- dtc warnings fix
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
setlocalversion: Use "grep -q" instead of piping output to "read dummy"
modpost: fix ALL_INIT_DATA_SECTIONS
Kbuild: centralize MKIMAGE and cmd_uimage definitions
headers_check: recursively search for linux/types.h inclusion
scripts/Kbuild.include: Fix portability problem of "echo -e"
scripts: dtc: fix compile warnings
kbuild: clean up samples directory
kbuild: disable -Wmissing-field-initializers for W=1
jump_label.c needs asm/cacheflush.h to get flushi().
kgdb_64.c needs asm/cacheflush.h to get flushw_all().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fixes this build error:
kernel/signal.c: In function 'ptrace_stop':
kernel/signal.c:1860:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'synchronize_user_stack' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86:
32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel
syscalls.
This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address
space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address
space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc."
Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c}
* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format
x32: Add ptrace for x32
x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t
x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates
x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls
x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect
x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old
x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once
x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks
fs: Remove missed ->fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally
fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable
x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO
x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code
x32: Add x32 VDSO support
x32: Allow x32 to be configured
x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables
x32: Handle process creation
x32: Signal-related system calls
x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to <asm/sys_ia32.h>
...
Pull arch/tile (really asm-generic) update from Chris Metcalf:
"These are a couple of asm-generic changes that apply to tile."
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
compat: use sys_sendfile64() implementation for sendfile syscall
[PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls
This has been obsolescent for a while; time for the final push.
In adjacent context, replaced old cpus_* with cpumask_*.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> (arch/sparc)
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> (arch/tile)
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
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Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system
Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
"Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
dependencies.
I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
and made sure that they don't break.
The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().
This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.
The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of
low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()).
These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:
(1) asm/barrier.h
Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha.
(2) asm/switch_to.h
Move switch_to() and related stuff here.
(3) asm/exec.h
Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits
could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.
(4) asm/cmpxchg.h
Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().
(5) asm/bug.h
Move die() and related bits.
(6) asm/auxvec.h
Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.
Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."
Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..
* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
Delete all instances of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
Create asm-generic/barrier.h
Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
...
Adapt core SPARC architecture code for dma_map_ops changes: replace
alloc/free_coherent with generic alloc/free methods.
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This makes vio_register_driver() get the module owner & name at compile
time like PCI drivers do, and adds a name pointer directly in struct
vio_driver to avoid having to explicitly initialize the embedded
struct device.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
All ARCHs have the same definition of MKIMAGE. Move it to Makefile.lib
to avoid duplication.
All ARCHs have similar definitions of cmd_uimage. Place a sufficiently
parameterized version in Makefile.lib to avoid duplication.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [Blackfin]
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> [Microblaze]
Tested-by: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> [unicore32]
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
"[RFC - PATCH 0/7] consolidation of BUG support code."
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/26/525
--
The changes shown here are to unify linux's BUG support under
the one <linux/bug.h> file. Due to historical reasons, we have
some BUG code in bug.h and some in kernel.h -- i.e. the support for
BUILD_BUG in linux/kernel.h predates the addition of linux/bug.h,
but old code in kernel.h wasn't moved to bug.h at that time. As
a band-aid, kernel.h was including <asm/bug.h> to pseudo link them.
This has caused confusion[1] and general yuck/WTF[2] reactions.
Here is an example that violates the principle of least surprise:
CC lib/string.o
lib/string.c: In function 'strlcat':
lib/string.c:225:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'BUILD_BUG_ON'
make[2]: *** [lib/string.o] Error 1
$
$ grep linux/bug.h lib/string.c
#include <linux/bug.h>
$
We've included <linux/bug.h> for the BUG infrastructure and yet we
still get a compile fail! [We've not kernel.h for BUILD_BUG_ON.]
Ugh - very confusing for someone who is new to kernel development.
With the above in mind, the goals of this changeset are:
1) find and fix any include/*.h files that were relying on the
implicit presence of BUG code.
2) find and fix any C files that were consuming kernel.h and
hence relying on implicitly getting some/all BUG code.
3) Move the BUG related code living in kernel.h to <linux/bug.h>
4) remove the asm/bug.h from kernel.h to finally break the chain.
During development, the order was more like 3-4, build-test, 1-2.
But to ensure that git history for bisect doesn't get needless
build failures introduced, the commits have been reorderd to fix
the problem areas in advance.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/3/90
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/17/414
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Merge tag 'bug-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
Pull <linux/bug.h> cleanup from Paul Gortmaker:
"The changes shown here are to unify linux's BUG support under the one
<linux/bug.h> file. Due to historical reasons, we have some BUG code
in bug.h and some in kernel.h -- i.e. the support for BUILD_BUG in
linux/kernel.h predates the addition of linux/bug.h, but old code in
kernel.h wasn't moved to bug.h at that time. As a band-aid, kernel.h
was including <asm/bug.h> to pseudo link them.
This has caused confusion[1] and general yuck/WTF[2] reactions. Here
is an example that violates the principle of least surprise:
CC lib/string.o
lib/string.c: In function 'strlcat':
lib/string.c:225:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'BUILD_BUG_ON'
make[2]: *** [lib/string.o] Error 1
$
$ grep linux/bug.h lib/string.c
#include <linux/bug.h>
$
We've included <linux/bug.h> for the BUG infrastructure and yet we
still get a compile fail! [We've not kernel.h for BUILD_BUG_ON.] Ugh -
very confusing for someone who is new to kernel development.
With the above in mind, the goals of this changeset are:
1) find and fix any include/*.h files that were relying on the
implicit presence of BUG code.
2) find and fix any C files that were consuming kernel.h and hence
relying on implicitly getting some/all BUG code.
3) Move the BUG related code living in kernel.h to <linux/bug.h>
4) remove the asm/bug.h from kernel.h to finally break the chain.
During development, the order was more like 3-4, build-test, 1-2. But
to ensure that git history for bisect doesn't get needless build
failures introduced, the commits have been reorderd to fix the problem
areas in advance.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/3/90
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/17/414"
Fix up conflicts (new radeon file, reiserfs header cleanups) as per Paul
and linux-next.
* tag 'bug-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
kernel.h: doesn't explicitly use bug.h, so don't include it.
bug: consolidate BUILD_BUG_ON with other bug code
BUG: headers with BUG/BUG_ON etc. need linux/bug.h
bug.h: add include of it to various implicit C users
lib: fix implicit users of kernel.h for TAINT_WARN
spinlock: macroize assert_spin_locked to avoid bug.h dependency
x86: relocate get/set debugreg fcns to include/asm/debugreg.
Merge second batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
- various misc things
- core kernel changes to prctl, exit, exec, init, etc.
- kernel/watchdog.c updates
- get_maintainer
- MAINTAINERS
- the backlight driver queue
- core bitops code cleanups
- the led driver queue
- some core prio_tree work
- checkpatch udpates
- largeish crc32 update
- a new poll() feature for the v4l guys
- the rtc driver queue
- fatfs
- ptrace
- signals
- kmod/usermodehelper updates
- coredump
- procfs updates
* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (141 commits)
seq_file: add seq_set_overflow(), seq_overflow()
proc-ns: use d_set_d_op() API to set dentry ops in proc_ns_instantiate().
procfs: speed up /proc/pid/stat, statm
procfs: add num_to_str() to speed up /proc/stat
proc: speed up /proc/stat handling
fs/proc/kcore.c: make get_sparsemem_vmemmap_info() static
coredump: add VM_NODUMP, MADV_NODUMP, MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP
coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag
kmod: make __request_module() killable
kmod: introduce call_modprobe() helper
usermodehelper: ____call_usermodehelper() doesn't need do_exit()
usermodehelper: kill umh_wait, renumber UMH_* constants
usermodehelper: implement UMH_KILLABLE
usermodehelper: introduce umh_complete(sub_info)
usermodehelper: use UMH_WAIT_PROC consistently
signal: zap_pid_ns_processes: s/SEND_SIG_NOINFO/SEND_SIG_FORCED/
signal: oom_kill_task: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()
signal: cosmetic, s/from_ancestor_ns/force/ in prepare_signal() paths
signal: give SEND_SIG_FORCED more power to beat SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE
Hexagon: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
...
ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG is a macro defined by arch, but config
HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR depends on it. This is wrong, ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
has to be a Kconfig config, and arch's need it should select it
explicitly.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull PCI changes (including maintainer change) from Jesse Barnes:
"This pull has some good cleanups from Bjorn and Yinghai, as well as
some more code from Yinghai to better handle resource re-allocation
when enabled.
There's also a new initcall_debug feature from Arjan which will print
out quirk timing information to help identify slow quirks for fixing
or refinement (Yinghai sent in a few patches to do just that once the
new debug code landed).
Beyond that, I'm handing off PCI maintainership to Bjorn Helgaas.
He's been a core PCI and Linux contributor for some time now, and has
kindly volunteered to take over. I just don't feel I have the time
for PCI review and work that it deserves lately (I've taken on some
other projects), and haven't been as responsive lately as I'd like, so
I approached Bjorn asking if he'd like to manage things. He's going
to give it a try, and I'm confident he'll do at least as well as I
have in keeping the tree managed, patches flowing, and keeping things
stable."
Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts due to other cleanups (mips device
resource fixup cleanups clashing with list handling cleanup, ppc iseries
removal clashing with pci_probe_only cleanup etc)
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci: (112 commits)
PCI: Bjorn gets PCI hotplug too
PCI: hand PCI maintenance over to Bjorn Helgaas
unicore32/PCI: move <asm-generic/pci-bridge.h> include to asm/pci.h
sparc/PCI: convert devtree and arch-probed bus addresses to resource
powerpc/PCI: allow reallocation on PA Semi
powerpc/PCI: convert devtree bus addresses to resource
powerpc/PCI: compute I/O space bus-to-resource offset consistently
arm/PCI: don't export pci_flags
PCI: fix bridge I/O window bus-to-resource conversion
x86/PCI: add spinlock held check to 'pcibios_fwaddrmap_lookup()'
PCI / PCIe: Introduce command line option to disable ARI
PCI: make acpihp use __pci_remove_bus_device instead
PCI: export __pci_remove_bus_device
PCI: Rename pci_remove_behind_bridge to pci_stop_and_remove_behind_bridge
PCI: Rename pci_remove_bus_device to pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device
PCI: print out PCI device info along with duration
PCI: Move "pci reassigndev resource alignment" out of quirks.c
PCI: Use class for quirk for usb host controller fixup
PCI: Use class for quirk for ti816x class fixup
PCI: Use class for quirk for intel e100 interrupt fixup
...
Use the new helper function introduced in commit 5e6292c0f2 ("signal:
add block_sigmask() for adding sigmask to current->blocked") which
centralises the code for updating current->blocked after successfully
delivering a signal and reduces the amount of duplicate code across
architectures. In the past some architectures got this code wrong, so
using this helper function should stop that from happening again.
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This branch takes the PowerPC irq_host infrastructure (reverse mapping
from Linux IRQ numbers to hardware irq numbering), generalizes it,
renames it to irq_domain, and makes it available to all architectures.
Originally the plan has been to create an all-new irq_domain
implementation which addresses some of the powerpc shortcomings such
as not handling 1:1 mappings well, but doing that proved to be far
more difficult and invasive than generalizing the working code and
refactoring it in-place. So, this branch rips out the 'new'
irq_domain and replaces it with the modified powerpc version (in a
fully bisectable way of course). It converts all users over to the
new API and makes irq_domain selectable on any architecture.
No architecture is forced to enable irq_domain, but the infrastructure
is required for doing OpenFirmware style irq translations. It will
even work on SPARC even though SPARC has it's own mechanism for
translating irqs at boot time. MIPS, microblaze, embedded x86 and c6x
are converted too.
The resulting irq_domain code is probably still too verbose and can be
optimized more, but that can be done incrementally and is a task for
follow-on patches.
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Merge tag 'irqdomain-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6
Pull irq_domain support for all architectures from Grant Likely:
"Generialize powerpc's irq_host as irq_domain
This branch takes the PowerPC irq_host infrastructure (reverse mapping
from Linux IRQ numbers to hardware irq numbering), generalizes it,
renames it to irq_domain, and makes it available to all architectures.
Originally the plan has been to create an all-new irq_domain
implementation which addresses some of the powerpc shortcomings such
as not handling 1:1 mappings well, but doing that proved to be far
more difficult and invasive than generalizing the working code and
refactoring it in-place. So, this branch rips out the 'new'
irq_domain and replaces it with the modified powerpc version (in a
fully bisectable way of course). It converts all users over to the
new API and makes irq_domain selectable on any architecture.
No architecture is forced to enable irq_domain, but the infrastructure
is required for doing OpenFirmware style irq translations. It will
even work on SPARC even though SPARC has it's own mechanism for
translating irqs at boot time. MIPS, microblaze, embedded x86 and c6x
are converted too.
The resulting irq_domain code is probably still too verbose and can be
optimized more, but that can be done incrementally and is a task for
follow-on patches."
* tag 'irqdomain-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: (31 commits)
dt: fix twl4030 for non-dt compile on x86
mfd: twl-core: Add IRQ_DOMAIN dependency
devicetree: Add empty of_platform_populate() for !CONFIG_OF_ADDRESS (sparc)
irq_domain: Centralize definition of irq_dispose_mapping()
irq_domain/mips: Allow irq_domain on MIPS
irq_domain/x86: Convert x86 (embedded) to use common irq_domain
ppc-6xx: fix build failure in flipper-pic.c and hlwd-pic.c
irq_domain/microblaze: Convert microblaze to use irq_domains
irq_domain/powerpc: Replace custom xlate functions with library functions
irq_domain/powerpc: constify irq_domain_ops
irq_domain/c6x: Use library of xlate functions
irq_domain/c6x: constify irq_domain structures
irq_domain/c6x: Convert c6x to use generic irq_domain support.
irq_domain: constify irq_domain_ops
irq_domain: Create common xlate functions that device drivers can use
irq_domain: Remove irq_domain_add_simple()
irq_domain: Remove 'new' irq_domain in favour of the ppc one
mfd: twl-core.c: Fix the number of interrupts managed by twl4030
of/address: add empty static inlines for !CONFIG_OF
irq_domain: Add support for base irq and hwirq in legacy mappings
...
Pull kmap_atomic cleanup from Cong Wang.
It's been in -next for a long time, and it gets rid of the (no longer
used) second argument to k[un]map_atomic().
Fix up a few trivial conflicts in various drivers, and do an "evil
merge" to catch some new uses that have come in since Cong's tree.
* 'kmap_atomic' of git://github.com/congwang/linux: (59 commits)
feature-removal-schedule.txt: schedule the deprecated form of kmap_atomic() for removal
highmem: kill all __kmap_atomic() [swarren@nvidia.com: highmem: Fix ARM build break due to __kmap_atomic rename]
drbd: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
zcache: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
gma500: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
dm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
tomoyo: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
sunrpc: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
rds: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
net: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
mm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
lib: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
power: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
kdb: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
udf: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
ubifs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
squashfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
reiserfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
ocfs2: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
ntfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
...
Pull networking merge from David Miller:
"1) Move ixgbe driver over to purely page based buffering on receive.
From Alexander Duyck.
2) Add receive packet steering support to e1000e, from Bruce Allan.
3) Convert TCP MD5 support over to RCU, from Eric Dumazet.
4) Reduce cpu usage in handling out-of-order TCP packets on modern
systems, also from Eric Dumazet.
5) Support the IP{,V6}_UNICAST_IF socket options, making the wine
folks happy, from Erich Hoover.
6) Support VLAN trunking from guests in hyperv driver, from Haiyang
Zhang.
7) Support byte-queue-limtis in r8169, from Igor Maravic.
8) Outline code intended for IP_RECVTOS in IP_PKTOPTIONS existed but
was never properly implemented, Jiri Benc fixed that.
9) 64-bit statistics support in r8169 and 8139too, from Junchang Wang.
10) Support kernel side dump filtering by ctmark in netfilter
ctnetlink, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.
11) Support byte-queue-limits in gianfar driver, from Paul Gortmaker.
12) Add new peek socket options to assist with socket migration, from
Pavel Emelyanov.
13) Add sch_plug packet scheduler whose queue is controlled by
userland daemons using explicit freeze and release commands. From
Shriram Rajagopalan.
14) Fix FCOE checksum offload handling on transmit, from Yi Zou."
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1846 commits)
Fix pppol2tp getsockname()
Remove printk from rds_sendmsg
ipv6: fix incorrent ipv6 ipsec packet fragment
cpsw: Hook up default ndo_change_mtu.
net: qmi_wwan: fix build error due to cdc-wdm dependecy
netdev: driver: ethernet: Add TI CPSW driver
netdev: driver: ethernet: add cpsw address lookup engine support
phy: add am79c874 PHY support
mlx4_core: fix race on comm channel
bonding: send igmp report for its master
fs_enet: Add MPC5125 FEC support and PHY interface selection
net: bpf_jit: fix BPF_S_LDX_B_MSH compilation
net: update the usage of CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
fcoe: use CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY instead of CHECKSUM_PARTIAL on tx
net: do not do gso for CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY in netif_needs_gso
ixgbe: Fix issues with SR-IOV loopback when flow control is disabled
net/hyperv: Fix the code handling tx busy
ixgbe: fix namespace issues when FCoE/DCB is not enabled
rtlwifi: Remove unused ETH_ADDR_LEN defines
igbvf: Use ETH_ALEN
...
Fix up fairly trivial conflicts in drivers/isdn/gigaset/interface.c and
drivers/net/usb/{Kconfig,qmi_wwan.c} as per David.
Normal PCI enumeration via PCI config space uses __pci_read_base(), where
the PCI core applies any bus-to-resource offset. But sparc sometimes
reads PCI config space itself, and sometimes it gets addresses from the
device tree.
In ac1edcc579, I converted sparc to use the PCI core bus-to-resource
conversion, but I missed these sparc-specific paths. I don't have a way
to test it, but I think sparc is broken between that commit and this one.
This patch replaces the sparc-specific pci_resource_adjust() with the
generic pcibios_bus_to_resource() in the following paths:
pci_cfg_fake_ranges() (addresses read from PCI config)
apb_fake_ranges() (addresses computed based on PCI config)
of_scan_pci_bridge() (addresses from OF "ranges" property)
N.B.: Resources of non-P2P bridge devices are set in pci_parse_of_addrs()
and, as far as I can see, never converted to CPU addresses. I do not
understand why these would be treated differently than bridge windows.
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Pull scheduler changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
printk: Make it compile with !CONFIG_PRINTK
sched/x86: Fix overflow in cyc2ns_offset
sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again!
sched: Update yield() docs
printk/sched: Introduce special printk_sched() for those awkward moments
sched/nohz: Correctly initialize 'next_balance' in 'nohz' idle balancer
sched: Cleanup cpu_active madness
sched: Fix load-balance wreckage
sched: Clean up parameter passing of proc_sched_autogroup_set_nice()
sched: Ditch per cgroup task lists for load-balancing
sched: Rename load-balancing fields
sched: Move load-balancing arguments into helper struct
sched/rt: Do not submit new work when PI-blocked
sched/rt: Prevent idle task boosting
sched/wait: Add __wake_up_all_locked() API
sched/rt: Document scheduler related skip-resched-check sites
sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()
sched/rt: Add schedule_preempt_disabled()
sched/rt: Do not throttle when PI boosting
sched/rt: Keep period timer ticking when rt throttling is active
...
Pull perf events changes for v3.4 from Ingo Molnar:
- New "hardware based branch profiling" feature both on the kernel and
the tooling side, on CPUs that support it. (modern x86 Intel CPUs
with the 'LBR' hardware feature currently.)
This new feature is basically a sophisticated 'magnifying glass' for
branch execution - something that is pretty difficult to extract from
regular, function histogram centric profiles.
The simplest mode is activated via 'perf record -b', and the result
looks like this in perf report:
$ perf record -b any_call,u -e cycles:u branchy
$ perf report -b --sort=symbol
52.34% [.] main [.] f1
24.04% [.] f1 [.] f3
23.60% [.] f1 [.] f2
0.01% [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn [k] _IO_file_overflow
0.01% [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal [k] _IO_new_file_xsputn
0.01% [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal [k] strchrnul
0.01% [k] __printf [k] _IO_vfprintf_internal
0.01% [k] main [k] __printf
This output shows from/to branch columns and shows the highest
percentage (from,to) jump combinations - i.e. the most likely taken
branches in the system. "branches" can also include function calls
and any other synchronous and asynchronous transitions of the
instruction pointer that are not 'next instruction' - such as system
calls, traps, interrupts, etc.
This feature comes with (hopefully intuitive) flat ascii and TUI
support in perf report.
- Various 'perf annotate' visual improvements for us assembly junkies.
It will now recognize function calls in the TUI and by hitting enter
you can follow the call (recursively) and back, amongst other
improvements.
- Multiple threads/processes recording support in perf record, perf
stat, perf top - which is activated via a comma-list of PIDs:
perf top -p 21483,21485
perf stat -p 21483,21485 -ddd
perf record -p 21483,21485
- Support for per UID views, via the --uid paramter to perf top, perf
report, etc. For example 'perf top --uid mingo' will only show the
tasks that I am running, excluding other users, root, etc.
- Jump label restructurings and improvements - this includes the
factoring out of the (hopefully much clearer) include/linux/static_key.h
generic facility:
struct static_key key = STATIC_KEY_INIT_FALSE;
...
if (static_key_false(&key))
do unlikely code
else
do likely code
...
static_key_slow_inc();
...
static_key_slow_inc();
...
The static_key_false() branch will be generated into the code with as
little impact to the likely code path as possible. the
static_key_slow_*() APIs flip the branch via live kernel code patching.
This facility can now be used more widely within the kernel to
micro-optimize hot branches whose likelihood matches the static-key
usage and fast/slow cost patterns.
- SW function tracer improvements: perf support and filtering support.
- Various hardenings of the perf.data ABI, to make older perf.data's
smoother on newer tool versions, to make new features integrate more
smoothly, to support cross-endian recording/analyzing workflows
better, etc.
- Restructuring of the kprobes code, the splitting out of 'optprobes',
and a corner case bugfix.
- Allow the tracing of kernel console output (printk).
- Improvements/fixes to user-space RDPMC support, allowing user-space
self-profiling code to extract PMU counts without performing any
system calls, while playing nice with the kernel side.
- 'perf bench' improvements
- ... and lots of internal restructurings, cleanups and fixes that made
these features possible. And, as usual this list is incomplete as
there were also lots of other improvements
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (120 commits)
perf report: Fix annotate double quit issue in branch view mode
perf report: Remove duplicate annotate choice in branch view mode
perf/x86: Prettify pmu config literals
perf report: Enable TUI in branch view mode
perf report: Auto-detect branch stack sampling mode
perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag
perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option
perf tools: Make perf able to read files from older ABIs
perf tools: Fix ABI compatibility bug in print_event_desc()
perf tools: Enable reading of perf.data files from different ABI rev
perf: Add ABI reference sizes
perf report: Add support for taken branch sampling
perf record: Add support for sampling taken branch
perf tools: Add code to support PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
x86/kprobes: Split out optprobe related code to kprobes-opt.c
x86/kprobes: Fix a bug which can modify kernel code permanently
x86/kprobes: Fix instruction recovery on optimized path
perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switch
perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported
perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs
...
