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  1. 06 Jan, 2007 1 commit
    • Vivek Goyal's avatar
      [PATCH] i386: Restore CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option · dd0ec16f
      Vivek Goyal authored 
      
o Relocatable bzImage support had got rid of CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option
  thinking that now this option is not required as people can build a
  second kernel as relocatable and load it anywhere. So need of compiling
  the kernel for a custom address was gone. But Magnus uses vmlinux images
  for second kernel in Xen environment and he wants to continue to use
  it.

o Restoring the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option for the time being. I think
  down the line we can get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      dd0ec16f
  3. 09 Dec, 2006 1 commit
    • Randy Dunlap's avatar
      [PATCH] x86-64: no paravirt for X86_VOYAGER or X86_VISWS · f0f32fcc
      Randy Dunlap authored 
      
Since Voyager and Visual WS already define ARCH_SETUP,
it looks like PARAVIRT shouldn't be offered for them.

In file included from arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:63:
include/asm-i386/mach-visws/setup_arch.h:8:1: warning: "ARCH_SETUP" redefin=
ed
In file included from include/asm/msr.h:5,
                 from include/asm/processor.h:17,
                 from include/asm/thread_info.h:16,
                 from include/linux/thread_info.h:21,
                 from include/linux/preempt.h:9,
                 from include/linux/spinlock.h:49,
                 from include/linux/capability.h:45,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:46,
                 from arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:26:
include/asm/paravirt.h:163:1: warning: this is the location of the previous=
 definition
In file included from arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:63:
include/asm-i386/mach-visws/setup_arch.h:8:1: warning: "ARCH_SETUP" redefin=
ed
In file included from include/asm/msr.h:5,
                 from include/asm/processor.h:17,
                 from include/asm/thread_info.h:16,
                 from include/linux/thread_info.h:21,
                 from include/linux/preempt.h:9,
                 from include/linux/spinlock.h:49,
                 from include/linux/capability.h:45,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:46,
                 from arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:26:
include/asm/paravirt.h:163:1: warning: this is the location of the previous=
 definition
Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      f0f32fcc
  5. 08 Dec, 2006 1 commit
    • Jeremy Fitzhardinge's avatar
      [PATCH] Generic BUG for i386 · 91768d6c
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored 
      
This makes i386 use the generic BUG machinery.  There are no functional
changes from the old i386 implementation.

The main advantage in using the generic BUG machinery for i386 is that the
inlined overhead of BUG is just the ud2a instruction; the file+line(+function)
information are no longer inlined into the instruction stream.  This reduces
cache pollution, and makes disassembly work properly.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickens <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      91768d6c
  7. 06 Dec, 2006 6 commits
  9. 03 Oct, 2006 1 commit
    • Matt LaPlante's avatar
      Attack of "the the"s in arch · 4b3f686d
      Matt LaPlante authored 
      
The patch below corrects multiple occurances of "the the"
typos across several files, both in source comments and KConfig files.
There is no actual code changed, only text.  Note this only affects the /arch
directory, and I believe I could find many more elsewhere. :)
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      4b3f686d
  11. 02 Oct, 2006 1 commit
    • Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli's avatar
      [PATCH] Kprobes: Make kprobe modules more portable · 3a872d89
      Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli authored 
      
In an effort to make kprobe modules more portable, here is a patch that:

o Introduces the "symbol_name" field to struct kprobe.
  The symbol->address resolution now happens in the kernel in an
  architecture agnostic manner. 64-bit powerpc users no longer have
  to specify the ".symbols"
o Introduces the "offset" field to struct kprobe to allow a user to
  specify an offset into a symbol.
o The legacy mechanism of specifying the kprobe.addr is still supported.
  However, if both the kprobe.addr and kprobe.symbol_name are specified,
  probe registration fails with an -EINVAL.
o The symbol resolution code uses kallsyms_lookup_name(). So
  CONFIG_KPROBES now depends on CONFIG_KALLSYMS
o Apparantly kprobe modules were the only legitimate out-of-tree user of
  the kallsyms_lookup_name() EXPORT. Now that the symbol resolution
  happens in-kernel, remove the EXPORT as suggested by Christoph Hellwig
o Modify tcp_probe.c that uses the kprobe interface so as to make it
  work on multiple platforms (in its earlier form, the code wouldn't
  work, say, on powerpc)
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPrasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      3a872d89
  13. 27 Sep, 2006 3 commits
  15. 26 Sep, 2006 5 commits
  17. 27 Aug, 2006 1 commit
  19. 31 Jul, 2006 1 commit
  21. 03 Jul, 2006 2 commits
  23. 30 Jun, 2006 1 commit
  25. 29 Jun, 2006 2 commits
  27. 27 Jun, 2006 3 commits
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      [PATCH] vdso: randomize the i386 vDSO by moving it into a vma · e6e5494c
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      
Move the i386 VDSO down into a vma and thus randomize it.

Besides the security implications, this feature also helps debuggers, which
can COW a vma-backed VDSO just like a normal DSO and can thus do
single-stepping and other debugging features.

It's good for hypervisors (Xen, VMWare) too, which typically live in the same
high-mapped address space as the VDSO, hence whenever the VDSO is used, they
get lots of guest pagefaults and have to fix such guest accesses up - which
slows things down instead of speeding things up (the primary purpose of the
VDSO).

There's a new CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO (default=y) option, which provides support
for older glibcs that still rely on a prelinked high-mapped VDSO.  Newer
distributions (using glibc 2.3.3 or later) can turn this option off.  Turning
it off is also recommended for security reasons: attackers cannot use the
predictable high-mapped VDSO page as syscall trampoline anymore.

There is a new vdso=[0|1] boot option as well, and a runtime
/proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled sysctl switch, that allows the VDSO to be turned
on/off.

(This version of the VDSO-randomization patch also has working ELF
coredumping, the previous patch crashed in the coredumping code.)

This code is a combined work of the exec-shield VDSO randomization
code and Gerd Hoffmann's hypervisor-centric VDSO patch. Rusty Russell
started this patch and i completed it.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 2]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 3]
[akpm@osdl.org: revernt MAXMEM change]
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e6e5494c
    • James Bottomley's avatar
      [PATCH] fix subarchitecture breakage with CONFIG_SCHED_SMT · 96c52749
      James Bottomley authored 
      Commit 1e9f28fa

 ("[PATCH] sched: new
sched domain for representing multi-core") incorrectly made SCHED_SMT
and some of the structures it uses dependent on SMP.

However, this is wrong, the structures are only defined if X86_HT, so
SCHED_SMT has to depend on that as well.

The patch broke voyager, since it doesn't provide any of the multi-core
or hyperthreading structures.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      96c52749
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      [PATCH] 64bit Resource: finally enable 64bit resource sizes · 6550e07f
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored 
      
Introduce the Kconfig entry and actually switch to a 64bit value, if
wanted, for resource_size_t.

Based on a patch series originally from Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>

Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      6550e07f
  29. 26 Jun, 2006 5 commits
  31. 23 Jun, 2006 2 commits
  33. 15 May, 2006 1 commit
  35. 28 Apr, 2006 2 commits
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      [PATCH] Mark VMSPLIT EMBEDDED · 9539d4e7
      Andi Kleen authored 
      
Running abnormal VM splits causes weird problems - people can set non-standard
splits by accident, then lots of time gets wasted diagnosing it - see the long
"[stable] 2.6.16.6 breaks java...  sort of" email thread.

So we need to make this option harder to set.  Use CONFIG_EMBEDDED for this.

CONFIG_EMBEDDED isn't really the right thing to use, but there's nothing else
obvious and avoiding these problems is more important than Kconfig purity.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      9539d4e7
    • Ashok Raj's avatar
      [PATCH] enable X86_PC for HOTPLUG_CPU · 35076bdf
      Ashok Raj authored 
      
CPU_HOTPLUG has race conditions when we use broadcast mode IPI.

- First we introduced no_broadcast option
    (see include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_ipi.h)

- x86_64 solved it by using physical flat mode (same as bigsmp on i386)
  since this will not use broadcast shortcuts for IPI.

- We switched to use bigsmp on i386 so that we can have same handling as
  x86_64, but apparently this caused an error message, if kernel was
  compiled without X86_GENERICARCH, X86_BIGSMP.  The message "You have >8
  CPUS..." which was bogus and misleading, and only indicated one of the
  above ARCH wasnt selected.

So we do not switch to automatic bigsmp for HOTPLUG_CPU support in i386
until the other related config dependencies for SMP_SUSPEND etc can be done
right.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      35076bdf
  37. 11 Apr, 2006 1 commit
    • Yasunori Goto's avatar
      [PATCH] Configurable NODES_SHIFT · c80d79d7
      Yasunori Goto authored 
      Current implementations define NODES_SHIFT in include/asm-xxx/numnodes.h for
each arch.  Its definition is sometimes configurable.  Indeed, ia64 defines 5
NODES_SHIFT values in the current git tree.  But it looks a bit messy.

SGI-SN2(ia64) system requires 1024 nodes, and the number of nodes already has
been changeable by config.  Suitable node's number may be changed in the
future even if it is other architecture.  So, I wrote configurable node's
number.

This patch set defines just default value for each arch which needs multi
nodes except ia64.  But, it is easy to change to configurable if necessary.

On ia64 the number of nodes can be already configured in generic ia64 and SN2
config.  But, NODES_SHIFT is defined for DIG64 and HP'S machine too.  So, I
changed it so that all platforms can be configured via CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT.  It
would be simpler.

See also: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114358010523896&w=2

Signed-off-by: default avatarYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      c80d79d7