Interrupts must be disabled during alternative instruction patching. On
systems with high timer IRQ rates, or when running in an emulator, timing
differences can result in random kernel panics because of running partially
patched instructions. This doesn't yet fix NMIs, which requires extricating
the patch code from the late bug checking and is logically separate (and also
less likely to cause problems).
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When enabling the mmapper driver I got warnings because this "const"
miscdevice structure is passed to function as non-const pointer; unlike struct
tty_operations, however, I verified that misc_{de,}register _do_ modify their
parameter, so this const attribute must be removed.
Since the purpose of the change was to guarantee that no lock was needed, add
a comment to prove this differently.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Freeing the stack is left uselessly to the caller of run_helper in some cases
- this is taken from run_helper_thread, but here it is useless, so no caller
needs it and the only place where this happens has a potential leak - in case
of error neither run_helper() nor xterm_open() call free_stack(). At this
point passing a pointer is not needed - the stack pointer should be passed
directly, but this change is not done here.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This should make sure that, for UML, host's configuration files are not
considered, which avoids various pains to the user. Our dependency are such
that the obtained Kconfig will be valid and will lead to successful
compilation - however they cannot prevent an user from disabling any boot
device, and if an option is not set in the read .config (say
/boot/config-XXX), with make menuconfig ARCH=um, it is not set. This always
disables UBD and all console I/O channels, which leads to non-working UML
kernels, so this bothers users - especially now, since it will happen on
almost every machine (/boot/config-`uname -r` exists almost on every machine).
It can be workarounded with make defconfig ARCH=um, but it is non-obvious and
can be avoided, so please _do_ merge this patch.
Given the existence of options, it could be interesting to implement
(additionally) "option required" - with it, Kconfig will refuse reading a
.config file (from wherever it comes) if the given option is not set. With
this, one could mark with it the option characteristic of the given
architecture (it was an old proposal of Roman Zippel, when I pointed out our
problem):
config UML
option required
default y
However this should be further discussed:
*) for x86, it must support constructs like:
==arch/i386/Kconfig==
config 64BIT
option required
default n
where Kconfig must require that CONFIG_64BIT is disabled or not present in the
read .config.
*) do we want to do such checks only for the starting defconfig or also for
.config? Which leads to:
*) I may want to port a x86_64 .config to x86 and viceversa, or even among more
different archs. Should that be allowed, and in which measure (the user may
force skipping the check for a .config or it is only given a warning by
default)?
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
CONFIG_MODE_TT does not work there, the UML_ prefixed version must be used -
this causes a link-time failure when CONFIG_MODE_TT is enabled (i.e. always
here, never by Jeff).
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
user.h is too generic a header name. I've split out allocation routines from
it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/um/sys-x86_64/ptrace.c:20:1: warning: "SC_SS" redefined
In file included from arch/um/include/sysdep/ptrace.h:18,
from include/asm/ptrace-generic.h:12,
from include/asm/ptrace.h:15,
from arch/um/sys-x86_64/ptrace.c:8:
arch/um/include/sysdep/sc.h:38:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
arch/um/sys-x86_64/ptrace.c: In function 'putreg':
arch/um/sys-x86_64/ptrace.c:63: warning: implicit declaration of function 'SC_FS_BASE'
arch/um/sys-x86_64/ptrace.c:63: error: invalid lvalue in unary '&'
arch/um/sys-x86_64/ptrace.c:63: warning: implicit declaration of function 'SC_GS_BASE'
arch/um/sys-x86_64/ptrace.c:63: error: invalid lvalue in unary '&'
arch/um/sys-x86_64/ptrace.c: In function 'getreg':
arch/um/sys-x86_64/ptrace.c:101: error: invalid lvalue in unary '&'
arch/um/sys-x86_64/ptrace.c:101: error: invalid lvalue in unary '&'
I'd have to say that the fix for this, for now, is this:
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Separate out the concept of "queue congestion" from "backing-dev congestion".
Congestion is a backing-dev concept, not a queue concept.
The blk_* congestion functions are retained, as wrappers around the core
backing-dev congestion functions.
This proper layering is needed so that NFS can cleanly use the congestion
functions, and so that CONFIG_BLOCK=n actually links.
Cc: "Thomas Maier" <balagi@justmail.de>
Cc: "Jens Axboe" <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
With the existing prototype the following code:
const void __iomem *io = ioremap();
x = readb(io);
iounmap(io);
did result in a warning.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n case is obviously wrong, though it is harmless since
CONFIG_KALLSYMS is always enabled with CONFIG_STACKTRACE for now.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
A sign extension bug did result in sys_personality being invoked with a
0xffffffffffffffffUL argument, so querying the current personality didn't
work.
Signed-off-by: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Burman Yan
Linus Torvalds
Adrian Bunk
Zachary Amsden
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Jeff Dike
Andrew Morton
David S. Miller
Ralf Baechle
Yoichi Yuasa
Atsushi Nemoto
Thiemo Seufer