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1676 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Yoichi Yuasa
c984c87826 [MIPS] time: Use non-interrupt locks in GT641xx clockevent driver
set_next_event() and set_mode() are always called with interrupt disabled.
irqsave and irqrestore are not necessary for spinlock.
Pointed out by Atsushi Nemoto.

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-29 19:35:33 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
2c771a4c28 [MIPS] Alchemy: micro-optimizatize time code.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-29 19:35:32 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
310a09d850 [MIPS] Alchemy: Nuke homebrew setup_irq(), it's broken and unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-29 19:35:32 +00:00
Kevin D. Kissell
be5f1f2114 [MIPS] SMTC: Allow control over TC assignment to vpe0.
Modify the SMTC initialization code to allow boot-time specification not
only of how many VPEs and TCs to use, but also how many TCs out of the
allowed pool are to be bound to VPE 0.  The new boot option is "vpe0tcs=N",
where N is an integer.  Using it in combination with the existing options
allows arbitrary assignments across the 2 VPEs of a 34K.  e.g. "maxtcs=3
 vpe0tcs=1" forces VPE0 to have 1 TC, while VPE1 has 2, and "maxtcs=4
vpe0tcs=3" forces VPE0 to have 3 TCs, while VPE1 gets 1.  If no vpe0tcs
option is specified, the traditional algorithm of evenly dividing TCs
between available VPEs, with the odd "slop" going to VPE0, is retained.

The reason for doing this is to allow a finer balancing of TCs which can
handle I/O interrupts on Malta (those on VPE 0) and those which cannot.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-29 19:35:32 +00:00
Jens Axboe
4fcc47a053 mips: sg_page() fallout
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-23 12:32:34 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
f10f114f19 Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  [MIPS] time: Make c0_compare_int_usable more bullet proof
  [MIPS] Kbuild: Use the new cc-cross-prefix feature.
  [MIPS] Fix include wrapper symbol to something sane.
  [MIPS] Malta: Delete dead code.
  [MIPS] time: Add GT641xx timer0 clockevent driver
  [MIPS] time: SMP-proofing of Sibyte clockevent/clocksource code.
  [MIPS] time: SMP/NUMA-proofing of IP27 HUB RT timer code.
  [MIPS] time: Fix calculation in clockevent_set_clock()
2007-10-22 19:21:08 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto
dab969c00b [MIPS] time: Make c0_compare_int_usable more bullet proof
Use write_c0_compare(read_c0_count()) to clear interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-22 22:09:01 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
17f690be45 [MIPS] Kbuild: Use the new cc-cross-prefix feature.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-22 22:09:01 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
fa33a54646 [MIPS] Malta: Delete dead code.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-22 22:09:00 +01:00
Yoichi Yuasa
1097c6ac33 [MIPS] time: Add GT641xx timer0 clockevent driver
And make use of it for Cobalt.  A few others such as the Malta could make
use of it as well.

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-22 22:09:00 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
d04533650f [MIPS] time: SMP-proofing of Sibyte clockevent/clocksource code.
The BCM148 has 4 cores but there are also just 4 generic timers available
so use the ZBbus cycle counter instead of it.  In addition the ZBbus
counter also offers a much higher resolution and 64-bit counting so I'm
considering a later complete conversion to it once I figure out if all
members of the Sibyte SOC family support it - the docs seem to agree but
the headers files seem to disagree ...

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-22 22:09:00 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
06d428d719 [MIPS] time: SMP/NUMA-proofing of IP27 HUB RT timer code.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-22 22:09:00 +01:00
Atsushi Nemoto
508a775a3c [MIPS] time: Fix calculation in clockevent_set_clock()
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-22 22:09:00 +01:00
Jens Axboe
58b053e4ce Update arch/ to use sg helpers
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-22 21:19:59 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
01dd2fbf0d typo fixes
Most of these fixes were already submitted for old kernel versions, and were
approved, but for some reason they never made it into the releases.

Because this is a consolidation of a couple old missed patches, it touches both
Kconfigs and documentation texts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 01:34:40 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
3a4fa0a25d Fix misspellings of "system", "controller", "interrupt" and "necessary".
Fix the various misspellings of "system", controller", "interrupt" and
"[un]necessary".

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:10:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
0a4908e19f Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  [MIPS] Delete totally outdated Documentation/mips/time.README
  [MIPS] Kill duplicated setup_irq() for cp0 timer
  [MIPS] Sibyte: Finish conversion to modern time APIs.
  [MIPS] time: Helpers to compute clocksource/event shift and mult values.
  [MIPS] SMTC: Build fix.
  [MIPS] time: Delete dead code.
  [MIPS] MIPSsim: Strip defconfig file to the bones.
2007-10-19 12:01:22 -07:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
09cadedbdc Combine instrumentation menus in kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation
Quoting Randy:

"It seems sad that this patch sources Kconfig.marker, a 7-line file,
20-something times.  Yes, you (we) don't want to put those 7 lines into
20-something different files, so sourcing is the right thing.

However, what you did for avr32 seems more on the right track to me: make
_one_ Instrumentation support menu that includes PROFILING, OPROFILE, KPROBES,
and MARKERS and then use (source) that in all of the arches."

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:54 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
19c5870c0e Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks (arch code)
One of the easiest things to isolate is the pid printed in kernel log.
There was a patch, that made this for arch-independent code, this one makes
so for arch/xxx files.

It took some time to cross-compile it, but hopefully these are all the
printks in arch code.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
1977f03272 remove asm/bitops.h includes
remove asm/bitops.h includes

including asm/bitops directly may cause compile errors. don't include it
and include linux/bitops instead. next patch will deny including asm header
directly.

Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
Serge E. Hallyn
b460cbc581 pid namespaces: define is_global_init() and is_container_init()
is_init() is an ambiguous name for the pid==1 check.  Split it into
is_global_init() and is_container_init().

A cgroup init has it's tsk->pid == 1.

A global init also has it's tsk->pid == 1 and it's active pid namespace
is the init_pid_ns.  But rather than check the active pid namespace,
compare the task structure with 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper', which is
initialized during boot to the /sbin/init process and never changes.

Changelog:

	2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1:
	- Use 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper' to determine if a given task is the
	  global init (/sbin/init) process. This would improve performance
	  and remove dependence on the task_pid().

	2.6.21-mm2-pidns2:

	- [Sukadev Bhattiprolu] Changed is_container_init() calls in {powerpc,
	  ppc,avr32}/traps.c for the _exception() call to is_global_init().
	  This way, we kill only the cgroup if the cgroup's init has a
	  bug rather than force a kernel panic.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Use is_global_init() in arch/m32r/mm/fault.c]
[bunk@stusta.de: kernel/pid.c: remove unused exports]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix capability.c to work with threaded init]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov
a47afb0f9d pid namespaces: round up the API
The set of functions process_session, task_session, process_group and
task_pgrp is confusing, as the names can be mixed with each other when looking
at the code for a long time.

The proposals are to
* equip the functions that return the integer with _nr suffix to
  represent that fact,
* and to make all functions work with task (not process) by making
  the common prefix of the same name.

For monotony the routines signal_session() and set_signal_session() are
replaced with task_session_nr() and set_task_session(), especially since they
are only used with the explicit task->signal dereference.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
Paul Jackson
c2e2c7fa1c task cgroups: enable cgroups by default in some configs
In pre-cgroup cpusets, a few config files enabled cpusets by default.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:36 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto
1d9ef3ecd7 [MIPS] Kill duplicated setup_irq() for cp0 timer
Also many plat_timer_setup() can be killed too.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-19 18:15:58 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
d527eef5b7 [MIPS] Sibyte: Finish conversion to modern time APIs.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-19 18:15:58 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
93c846f904 [MIPS] time: Helpers to compute clocksource/event shift and mult values.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-19 18:15:57 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
f887b93e17 [MIPS] SMTC: Build fix.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-19 18:15:57 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
9c9ad7917b [MIPS] time: Delete dead code.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-19 18:15:57 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
723ee050aa [MIPS] MIPSsim: Strip defconfig file to the bones.
MIPSsim simulates only a barebone system, no point in a fancy kernel.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-19 18:15:57 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
42f77542f4 [MIPS] time: Move R4000 clockevent device code to separate configurable file
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-18 18:11:47 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
2cfa7660db [MIPS] time: Delete dead cycles_per_jiffy, mips_timer_ack and null_timer_ack
cycles_per_jiffy was only ever getting assigned and the function pointer
not being called anymore and mips_timer_ack had gotten similarly stale.  I
leave the remaining assignments unfixed as a lighthouse pointing platform
maintainers to what needs a rewrite.  These changes make null_timer_ack()
unreferenced, so delete that too.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-18 18:11:47 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
76d3a7a54c [MIPS] IP32: Retire use of plat_timer_setup.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-18 18:11:47 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
89742e5376 [MIPS] Jazz: Retire use of plat_timer_setup.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-18 18:11:47 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
e887b24592 [MIPS] IP27: Convert to clock_event_device.
This separates the tick timer stuff from the generic MIPS time.c.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-18 18:11:47 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
832348ff0b [MIPS] JMR3927: Convert to clock_event_device.
This separate the tick timer stuff from the generic MIPS time.c.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-18 18:11:46 +01:00
Thomas Bogendoerfer
15ad838d28 [MIPS] Always do the ARC64_TWIDDLE_PC thing.
Always jump to the place where the kernel is linked to. This helps where
the bootloaders/proms ignores the start address inside the ELF header.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-18 18:11:46 +01:00
Thomas Bogendoerfer
0eafaae84e [MIPS] IP22: Fix hang due to messing with timer interrupt handler
As IP22 is now using do_IRQ for timer interrupt, don't mess with
interrupt handler any longer

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-17 18:28:49 +01:00
Atsushi Nemoto
9ee5389c58 [MIPS] Sibyte: Fix typos in sibyte clockevent drivers
Fix some typo introduced on clockevent conversion.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-17 18:28:49 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
820b2d853b [MIPS] Alchemy: replace last remaining instance of au_ffs with ffs.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-17 18:28:48 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
c30db2480e [MIPS] Alchemy: Reformat PM code.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-17 18:28:48 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
f3e8d1da38 [MIPS] Alchemy: Fix build by conversion to irq_cpu.c.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-17 18:28:48 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
fb8dd01422 [MIPS] MTX1: Enable CONFIG_CROSSCOMPILE in defconfig.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-17 18:28:48 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
b0d4056dd6 [MIPS] Probe for usability of cp0 compare interrupt.
Some processors offer the option of using the interrupt on which
normally the count / compare interrupt would be signaled as a normal
interupt pin.  Previously this required some ugly hackery for each
system which is much easier done by a quick and simple probe.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-17 18:28:47 +01:00
Maciej W. Rozycki
60b0d65541 [MIPS] SYNC emulation for MIPS I processors
Userland, including the C library and the dynamic linker, is keen to use
the SYNC instruction, even for "generic" MIPS I binaries these days.
Which makes it less than useful on MIPS I processors.

This change adds the emulation, but as our do_ri() infrastructure was not
really prepared to take yet another instruction, I have rewritten it and
its callees slightly as follows.

Now there is only a single place a possible signal is thrown from.  The
place is at the end of do_ri().  The instruction word is fetched in
do_ri() and passed down to handlers.  The handlers are called in sequence
and return a result that lets the caller decide upon further processing.
If the result is positive, then the handler has picked the instruction,
but a signal should be thrown and the result is the signal number.  If the
result is zero, then the handler has successfully simulated the
instruction.  If the result is negative, then the handler did not handle
the instruction; to make it more obvious the calls do not follow the usual
0/-Exxx result convention they now return -1 instead of -EFAULT.

The calculation of the return EPC is now at the beginning.  The reason is
it is easier to handle it there as emulation callees may modify a register
and an instruction may be located in delay slot of a branch whose result
depends on the register.  It has to be undone if a signal is to be raised,
but it is not a problem as this is the slow-path case, and both actions
are done in single places now rather than the former being scattered
through emulation handlers.

The part of do_cpu() being covered follows the changes to do_ri().

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

---
2007-10-17 18:28:47 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
396a2ae08e [MIPS] Fix modpost warning in raw binary builds.
MODPOST vmlinux.o
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x478): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_kernel (between '_stext' and 'run_init_process')

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-17 18:28:46 +01:00
Roel Kluin
f7a75f0a40 spin_lock_unlocked cleanups
Replace some SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED with DEFINE_SPINLOCK

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:01 -07:00
Maciej W. Rozycki
44a2db43eb lk201: remove obsolete driver
Remove the old-fashioned lk201 driver under drivers/tc/ that used to be
used by the old dz.c and zs.c drivers, which is now orphan code referred to
from nowhere and does not build anymore.  A modern replacement is available
as drivers/input/keyboard/lkkbd.c.

There are no plans to do anything about this piece of code and it does not
fit anywhere anymore, so it is not just a matter of maintenance or the lack
of.  There are still some bits that might be added to the new lkkbd.c
driver based on the old code, and the embedded hardware documentation which
is otherwise quite hard to get hold of might be useful to keep too.  Both
of these can be done separately though.  RIP.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
622a9edd91 Remove dma_cache_(wback|inv|wback_inv) functions
dma_cache_(wback|inv|wback_inv) were the earliest attempt on a generalized
cache managment API for I/O purposes.  Originally it was basically the raw
MIPS low level cache API exported to the entire world.  The API has
suffered from a lack of documentation, was not very widely used unlike it's
more modern brothers and can easily be replaced by dma_cache_sync.  So
remove it rsp.  turn the surviving bits back into an arch private API, as
discussed on linux-arch.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:57 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
cba4fbbff2 remove include/asm-*/ipc.h
All asm/ipc.h files do only #include <asm-generic/ipc.h>.

This patch therefore removes all include/asm-*/ipc.h files and moves the
contents of include/asm-generic/ipc.h to include/linux/ipc.h.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
Neil Horman
7dc0b22e3c core_pattern: ignore RLIMIT_CORE if core_pattern is a pipe
For some time /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern has been able to set its output
destination as a pipe, allowing a user space helper to receive and
intellegently process a core.  This infrastructure however has some
shortcommings which can be enhanced.  Specifically:

1) The coredump code in the kernel should ignore RLIMIT_CORE limitation
   when core_pattern is a pipe, since file system resources are not being
   consumed in this case, unless the user application wishes to save the core,
   at which point the app is restricted by usual file system limits and
   restrictions.

2) The core_pattern code should be able to parse and pass options to the
   user space helper as an argv array.  The real core limit of the uid of the
   crashing proces should also be passable to the user space helper (since it
   is overridden to zero when called).

3) Some miscellaneous bugs need to be cleaned up (specifically the
   recognition of a recursive core dump, should the user mode helper itself
   crash.  Also, the core dump code in the kernel should not wait for the user
   mode helper to exit, since the same context is responsible for writing to
   the pipe, and a read of the pipe by the user mode helper will result in a
   deadlock.

This patch:

Remove the check of RLIMIT_CORE if core_pattern is a pipe.  In the event that
core_pattern is a pipe, the entire core will be fed to the user mode helper.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
Cc: <wwoods@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00