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Sam bobroff feba40362b powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions
This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return immediately without
performing the syscall.

Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an
active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active
transaction fails.

This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was
documented as unsupported. It doesn't reduce functionality because
syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend. It also provides a
consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code
substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not
support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390).

Performance measurements using
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c
indicate the cost of a system call increases by about 0.5%.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Acked-By: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-04-11 20:49:19 +10:00
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ABI cxl: Fix a typo in ABI documentation 2015-03-27 21:04:06 +11:00
accounting Documentation: use subdir-y to avoid unnecessary built-in.o files 2014-09-26 11:02:55 +02:00
acpi ACPI / Documentation: add a missing '=' 2015-01-22 01:21:45 +01:00
aoe
arm ARM: SoC platform changes 2015-02-17 09:27:54 -08:00
arm64 arm64: Emulate SETEND for AArch32 tasks 2015-01-23 17:11:44 +00:00
auxdisplay Documentation: use subdir-y to avoid unnecessary built-in.o files 2014-09-26 11:02:55 +02:00
backlight
blackfin Documentation: fix blackfin gptimers-example build errors 2015-01-28 12:07:58 -07:00
block Merge branch 'for-3.19/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-12-13 14:14:23 -08:00
blockdev zram: report maximum used memory 2014-10-09 22:26:02 -04:00
bus-devices
cdrom
cgroups mm: memcontrol: use "max" instead of "infinity" in control knobs 2015-02-28 09:57:51 -08:00
connector
console
cpu-freq intel_pstate: Add num_pstates to sysfs 2015-01-30 01:52:17 +01:00
cpuidle
cris
crypto crypto: doc - userspace interface spec 2014-11-13 22:31:38 +08:00
development-process Documentation: remove outdated references to the linux-next wiki 2014-10-28 09:06:11 -04:00
device-mapper dm crypt: add 'submit_from_crypt_cpus' option 2015-02-16 11:11:15 -05:00
devicetree ARM: SoC fixes for 4.0-rc3 2015-03-15 10:49:38 -07:00
dmaengine Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma 2015-02-18 08:49:20 -08:00
DocBook KGDB/KDB New: 2015-02-20 15:13:29 -08:00
driver-model Staging drivers patches for 3.20-rc1 2015-02-15 11:30:39 -08:00
dvb [media] get_dvb_firmware: Update firmware of ITEtech IT9135 2014-09-21 17:03:04 -03:00
early-userspace
EDID
extcon
fault-injection
fb
filesystems ocfs2: update web page + git tree in documentation 2015-02-28 09:57:50 -08:00
firmware_class
fmc
frv
gpio gpio: board.txt: Fix the gpio name example 2015-01-28 11:14:00 -07:00
hid HID: uhid: update documentation 2014-08-25 03:28:09 -05:00
hwmon hwmon: (ina2xx) Add ina231 compatible string 2015-01-25 21:23:59 -08:00
i2c i2c: fix reference to functionality constants definition 2015-02-19 16:57:48 +01:00
i2o
ia64 virtual: Documentation: simplify and generalize paravirt_ops.txt 2015-02-13 17:15:44 +10:30
ide
infiniband IB/mad: add new ioctl to ABI to support new registration options 2014-08-10 20:36:00 -07:00
input Input: ALPS - move v7 packet info to Documentation and v6 packet info 2015-02-15 16:04:23 -08:00
ioctl cxl: Add documentation for userspace APIs 2014-10-08 20:16:19 +11:00
isdn
ja_JP
kbuild Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2015-02-19 10:31:37 -08:00
kdump kernel: add panic_on_warn 2014-12-10 17:41:10 -08:00
ko_KR
laptops Documentation: update .gitignore files 2014-09-26 11:02:59 +02:00
leds
locking Documentation changes for 3.20 2015-02-11 13:03:11 -08:00
m68k
memory-devices
metag
mic Documentation: Build mic/mpssd only for x86_64 2014-12-05 11:18:36 -05:00
mips Documentation: au1xxx-ide.c has moved 2014-08-26 09:35:53 +02:00
misc-devices Documentation/misc-devices/mei: Fix indentation of embedded code. 2015-01-29 12:56:20 -07:00
mmc
mn10300
mtd
namespaces
netlabel
networking Documentation changes for 3.20 2015-02-11 13:03:11 -08:00
nfc
nios2 Documentation: Add documentation for Nios2 architecture 2014-12-08 12:56:06 +08:00
parisc
PCI
pcmcia Documentation: use subdir-y to avoid unnecessary built-in.o files 2014-09-26 11:02:55 +02:00
phy
platform
power genirq / PM: describe IRQF_COND_SUSPEND 2015-03-06 01:28:14 +01:00
powerpc powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions 2015-04-11 20:49:19 +10:00
pps
prctl Documentation: Restrict TSC test code to x86 2014-10-28 08:46:27 -04:00
pti
ptp ptp: restore the makefile for building the test program. 2014-10-24 16:07:10 -04:00
rapidio rapidio/tsi721_dma: rework scatter-gather list handling 2014-08-08 15:57:24 -07:00
RCU Merge branches 'doc.2015.01.07a', 'fixes.2015.01.15a', 'preempt.2015.01.06a', 'srcu.2015.01.06a', 'stall.2015.01.16a' and 'torture.2015.01.11a' into HEAD 2015-01-15 23:34:34 -08:00
s390 s390/docs: Remove section about script debugging from Debugging390.txt 2015-01-15 11:11:14 +01:00
scheduler doc: brief user documentation for completion 2015-01-30 11:19:25 -07:00
scsi Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2014-12-12 10:08:06 -08:00
security KEYS: Make /proc/keys unconditional if CONFIG_KEYS=y 2015-01-22 22:34:32 +00:00
serial serial: Fix locking for uart driver set_termios() method 2014-11-05 18:53:54 -08:00
sh
sound ALSA: hda - Add "eapd" model string for AD1986A codec 2014-12-10 14:00:13 +01:00
spi Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/doc 2014-10-07 21:14:57 -04:00
sysctl Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-02-11 18:23:28 -08:00
target Documentation/target: Update fabric_ops to latest code 2015-01-06 13:46:49 -08:00
thermal Documentation: thermal: document of_cpufreq_cooling_register() 2015-01-06 14:39:17 -04:00
timers Documentation: update .gitignore files 2014-09-26 11:02:59 +02:00
tpm
trace Char / Misc patches for 3.20-rc1 2015-02-15 10:48:44 -08:00
usb Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2015-02-10 18:57:15 -08:00
vDSO vdso: don't require 64-bit math in standalone test 2014-10-25 10:53:44 -04:00
video4linux MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE: fix some callsites 2015-02-13 21:21:40 -08:00
virtual OK, this has the big virtio 1.0 implementation, as specified by OASIS. 2015-02-18 09:24:01 -08:00
vm mm:add KPF_ZERO_PAGE flag for /proc/kpageflags 2015-02-11 17:06:00 -08:00
w1
watchdog Documentation: use subdir-y to avoid unnecessary built-in.o files 2014-09-26 11:02:55 +02:00
wimax
x86 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-02-21 10:41:29 -08:00
xtensa
zh_CN Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2014-08-06 21:03:53 -07:00
00-INDEX Update of Documentation/dmaengine/00-INDEX 2014-12-29 15:28:24 -07:00
applying-patches.txt Documentation: change "&" to "and" in Documentation/applying-patches.txt 2014-09-26 11:10:11 +02:00
assoc_array.txt
atomic_ops.txt documentation: Add atomic_long_t to atomic_ops.txt 2014-11-13 10:34:54 -08:00
bad_memory.txt
basic_profiling.txt
bcache.txt
binfmt_misc.txt binfmt_misc: touch up documentation a bit 2014-10-14 02:18:16 +02:00
braille-console.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
BUG-HUNTING
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
cachetlb.txt rmap: drop support of non-linear mappings 2015-02-10 14:30:31 -08:00
Changes Documentation: GNU is frequently spelled Gnu 2014-12-29 15:33:17 -07:00
circular-buffers.txt
clk.txt clk: Add rate constraints to clocks 2015-02-02 14:23:42 -08:00
coccinelle.txt
CodeOfConflict Code of Conflict 2015-02-27 11:44:24 -08:00
CodingStyle CodingStyle: enable emacs display of trailing whitespace 2015-01-28 12:05:46 -07:00
cpu-hotplug.txt
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
crc32.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt
devices.txt
digsig.txt
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt Documentation: correct parameter error for dma_mapping_error 2014-09-26 11:22:29 +02:00
DMA-API.txt
DMA-attributes.txt
dma-buf-sharing.txt Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt: update API descriptions 2014-08-28 11:57:24 +05:30
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
dontdiff
dynamic-debug-howto.txt
edac.txt
efi-stub.txt
eisa.txt
email-clients.txt Documentation/email-clients.txt: add info about Claws Mail 2014-12-02 11:55:29 -05:00
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt doc: Fix misnamed FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI op constants 2015-01-19 12:05:32 +01:00
gcov.txt
gdb-kernel-debugging.txt scripts/gdb: add basic documentation 2015-02-17 14:34:54 -08:00
highuid.txt
HOWTO Documentation: remove outdated references to the linux-next wiki 2014-10-28 09:06:11 -04:00
hsi.txt
hw_random.txt
hwspinlock.txt
init.txt
initrd.txt
intel_txt.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt ipmi: Add SMBus interface driver (SSIF) 2014-12-11 15:04:11 -06:00
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ-domain.txt irqdomain: Introduce new interfaces to support hierarchy irqdomains 2014-11-23 13:01:45 +01:00
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt
kasan.txt kasan: enable instrumentation of global variables 2015-02-13 21:21:42 -08:00
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
kernel-docs.txt
kernel-parameters.txt TTY/Serial driver patches for 3.20-rc1 2015-02-15 11:37:02 -08:00
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
kmemcheck.txt
kmemleak.txt Documentation: Add CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF case 2014-10-24 13:59:03 -04:00
kobject.txt kobject: grammar fix 2014-12-08 09:07:11 -05:00
kprobes.txt Documentation: add description for FTRACE probe status 2015-02-04 16:05:44 -05:00
kref.txt
kselftest.txt kselftest: Move the docs to the Documentation dir 2014-11-24 10:49:54 -07:00
ldm.txt
local_ops.txt percpu: update local_ops.txt to reflect this_cpu operations 2014-12-13 12:42:53 -08:00
lockup-watchdogs.txt lockup-watchdogs: Fix a typo 2014-08-26 09:35:52 +02:00
logo.gif
logo.txt
lzo.txt Documentation: lzo: document part of the encoding 2014-09-28 11:08:00 +02:00
magic-number.txt
mailbox.txt Documentation: Fix a typo in mailbox.txt 2014-11-03 11:54:50 -05:00
Makefile Documentation: add makefiles for more targets 2014-09-26 11:02:56 +02:00
ManagementStyle
md.txt
media-framework.txt
memory-barriers.txt documentation: Fix smp typo in memory-barriers.txt 2015-01-07 08:59:32 -08:00
memory-hotplug.txt memory-hotplug: add sysfs valid_zones attribute 2014-10-09 22:25:52 -04:00
module-signing.txt
mono.txt
nommu-mmap.txt fs: introduce f_op->mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support 2015-01-20 14:02:58 -07:00
numastat.txt
oops-tracing.txt livepatch: kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH 2014-12-22 15:40:48 +01:00
padata.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
parport.txt
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
phy.txt phy: improved lookup method 2014-11-21 19:48:50 +05:30
pi-futex.txt
pinctrl.txt pinctrl: clean up after enable refactoring 2014-09-04 10:05:07 +02:00
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt lib/vsprintf: add %*pE[achnops] format specifier 2014-10-14 02:18:26 +02:00
pwm.txt
ramoops.txt pstore-ram: Allow optional mapping with pgprot_noncached 2014-12-11 13:38:31 -08:00
rbtree.txt
remoteproc.txt
rfkill.txt rfkill: document rfkill module parameters 2015-01-09 23:22:12 +01:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rpmsg.txt
rtc.txt
SAK.txt
SecurityBugs
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
SM501.txt
smsc_ece1099.txt
sparse.txt
stable_api_nonsense.txt
stable_kernel_rules.txt stable_kernel_rules: reorganize and update submission options 2015-01-12 05:04:12 -08:00
static-keys.txt
SubmitChecklist
SubmittingDrivers
SubmittingPatches Merge branch 'doc/sp-update' into docs-next 2015-01-29 13:11:58 -07:00
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt: Add device attribute error code documentation 2014-09-19 14:44:51 -07:00
sysrq.txt
this_cpu_ops.txt Docs: this_cpu_ops: remove redundant add forms 2014-09-26 11:03:00 +02:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
vfio.txt drivers/vfio: EEH support for VFIO PCI device 2014-08-05 15:28:48 +10:00
VGA-softcursor.txt
vgaarbiter.txt
video-output.txt
vme_api.txt
volatile-considered-harmful.txt
workqueue.txt
xillybus.txt xillybus: Move out of staging 2014-09-23 23:44:16 -07:00
xz.txt
zorro.txt