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* x86-64: Replace left over sti/cli in ia32 audit exit codeJan Beulich2013-02-111-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 40a1ef95da85843696fc3ebe5fce39b0db32669f upstream. For some reason they didn't get replaced so far by their paravirt equivalents, resulting in code to be run with interrupts disabled that doesn't expect so (causing, in the observed case, a BUG_ON() to trigger) when syscall auditing is enabled. David (Cc-ed) came up with an identical fix, so likely this can be taken to count as an ack from him. Reported-by: Peter Moody <pmoody@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5108E01902000078000BA9C5@nat28.tlf.novell.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Tested-by: Peter Moody <pmoody@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* ns: Wire up the setns system callEric W. Biederman2011-05-281-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 32bit and 64bit on x86 are tested and working. The rest I have looked at closely and I can't find any problems. setns is an easy system call to wire up. It just takes two ints so I don't expect any weird architecture porting problems. While doing this I have noticed that we have some architectures that are very slow to get new system calls. cris seems to be the slowest where the last system calls wired up were preadv and pwritev. avr32 is weird in that recvmmsg was wired up but never declared in unistd.h. frv is behind with perf_event_open being the last syscall wired up. On h8300 the last system call wired up was epoll_wait. On m32r the last system call wired up was fallocate. mn10300 has recvmmsg as the last system call wired up. The rest seem to at least have syncfs wired up which was new in the 2.6.39. v2: Most of the architecture support added by Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> v3: ported to v2.6.36-rc4 by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> v4: Moved wiring up of the system call to another patch v5: ported to v2.6.39-rc6 v6: rebased onto parisc-next and net-next to avoid syscall conflicts. v7: ported to Linus's latest post 2.6.39 tree. >  arch/blackfin/include/asm/unistd.h     |    3 ++- >  arch/blackfin/mach-common/entry.S      |    1 + Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Oh - ia64 wiring looks good. Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* net: Add sendmmsg socket system callAnton Blanchard2011-05-051-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a multiple message send syscall and is the send version of the existing recvmmsg syscall. This is heavily based on the patch by Arnaldo that added recvmmsg. I wrote a microbenchmark to test the performance gains of using this new syscall: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/sendmmsg_test.c The test was run on a ppc64 box with a 10 Gbit network card. The benchmark can send both UDP and RAW ethernet packets. 64B UDP batch pkts/sec 1 804570 2 872800 (+ 8 %) 4 916556 (+14 %) 8 939712 (+17 %) 16 952688 (+18 %) 32 956448 (+19 %) 64 964800 (+20 %) 64B raw socket batch pkts/sec 1 1201449 2 1350028 (+12 %) 4 1461416 (+22 %) 8 1513080 (+26 %) 16 1541216 (+28 %) 32 1553440 (+29 %) 64 1557888 (+30 %) We see a 20% improvement in throughput on UDP send and 30% on raw socket send. [ Add sparc syscall entries. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* x86: mark associated mm when running a task in 32 bit compatibility modeStephen Wilson2011-03-231-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch simply follows the same practice as for setting the TIF_IA32 flag. In particular, an mm is marked as holding 32-bit tasks when a 32-bit binary is exec'ed. Both ELF and a.out formats are updated. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* introduce sys_syncfs to sync a single file systemSage Weil2011-03-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is frequently useful to sync a single file system, instead of all mounted file systems via sync(2): - On machines with many mounts, it is not at all uncommon for some of them to hang (e.g. unresponsive NFS server). sync(2) will get stuck on those and may never get to the one you do care about (e.g., /). - Some applications write lots of data to the file system and then want to make sure it is flushed to disk. Calling fsync(2) on each file introduces unnecessary ordering constraints that result in a large amount of sub-optimal writeback/flush/commit behavior by the file system. There are currently two ways (that I know of) to sync a single super_block: - BLKFLSBUF ioctl on the block device: That also invalidates the bdev mapping, which isn't usually desirable, and doesn't work for non-block file systems. - 'mount -o remount,rw' will call sync_filesystem as an artifact of the current implemention. Relying on this little-known side effect for something like data safety sounds foolish. Both of these approaches require root privileges, which some applications do not have (nor should they need?) given that sync(2) is an unprivileged operation. This patch introduces a new system call syncfs(2) that takes an fd and syncs only the file system it references. Maybe someday we can $ sync /some/path and not get sync: ignoring all arguments The syscall is motivated by comments by Al and Christoph at the last LSF. syncfs(2) seems like an appropriate name given statfs(2). A similar ioctl was also proposed a while back, see http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=127970513829285&w=2 Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-03-151-18/+9
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, binutils, xen: Fix another wrong size directive x86: Remove dead config option X86_CPU x86: Really print supported CPUs if PROCESSOR_SELECT=y x86: Fix a bogus unwind annotation in lib/semaphore_32.S um, x86-64: Fix UML build after adding CFI annotations to lib/rwsem_64.S x86: Remove unused bits from lib/thunk_*.S x86: Use {push,pop}_cfi in more places x86-64: Add CFI annotations to lib/rwsem_64.S x86, asm: Cleanup unnecssary macros in asm-offsets.c x86, system.h: Drop unused __SAVE/__RESTORE macros x86: Use bitmap library functions x86: Partly unify asm-offsets_{32,64}.c x86: Reduce back the alignment of the per-CPU data section
| * x86: Use {push,pop}_cfi in more placesJan Beulich2011-02-281-18/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cleaning up and shortening code... Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> LKML-Reference: <4D6BD35002000078000341DA@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-03-151-0/+1
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (62 commits) posix-clocks: Check write permissions in posix syscalls hrtimer: Remove empty hrtimer_init_hres_timer() hrtimer: Update hrtimer->state documentation hrtimer: Update base[CLOCK_BOOTTIME].offset correctly timers: Export CLOCK_BOOTTIME via the posix timers interface timers: Add CLOCK_BOOTTIME hrtimer base time: Extend get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset() to also return sleep time: Introduce get_monotonic_boottime and ktime_get_boottime hrtimers: extend hrtimer base code to handle more then 2 clockids ntp: Remove redundant and incorrect parameter check mn10300: Switch do_timer() to xtimer_update() posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks posix-timers: Cleanup namespace posix-timers: Add support for fd based clocks x86: Add clock_adjtime for x86 posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning. time: Splitout compat timex accessors ntp: Add ADJ_SETOFFSET mode bit time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset posix-timer: Update comment ... Fix up new system-call-related conflicts in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S (name_to_handle_at()/open_by_handle_at() vs clock_adjtime()), and some due to movement of get_jiffies_64() in: kernel/time.c
| * | x86: Add clock_adjtime for x86Richard Cochran2011-02-021-0/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the clock_adjtime system call to the x86 architecture. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.968905083@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-03-151-0/+2
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (184 commits) perf probe: Clean up probe_point_lazy_walker() return value tracing: Fix irqoff selftest expanding max buffer tracing: Align 4 byte ints together in struct tracer tracing: Export trace_set_clr_event() tracing: Explain about unstable clock on resume with ring buffer warning ftrace/graph: Trace function entry before updating index ftrace: Add .ref.text as one of the safe areas to trace tracing: Adjust conditional expression latency formatting. tracing: Fix event alignment: skb:kfree_skb tracing: Fix event alignment: mce:mce_record tracing: Fix event alignment: kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall tracing: Fix event alignment: module:module_request tracing: Fix event alignment: ftrace:context_switch and ftrace:wakeup tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry perf header: Stop using 'self' perf session: Use evlist/evsel for managing perf.data attributes perf top: Don't let events to eat up whole header line perf top: Fix events overflow in top command ring-buffer: Remove unused #include <linux/trace_irq.h> tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option. ...
| * | x86: Separate out entry text sectionJiri Olsa2011-03-081-0/+2
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Put x86 entry code into a separate link section: .entry.text. Separating the entry text section seems to have performance benefits - caused by more efficient instruction cache usage. Running hackbench with perf stat --repeat showed that the change compresses the icache footprint. The icache load miss rate went down by about 15%: before patch: 19417627 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.147% ) after patch: 16490788 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.180% ) The motivation of the patch was to fix a particular kprobes bug that relates to the entry text section, the performance advantage was discovered accidentally. Whole perf output follows: - results for current tip tree: Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs): 19417627 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.147% ) 2676914223 instructions # 0.497 IPC ( +- 0.079% ) 5389516026 cycles ( +- 0.144% ) 0.206267711 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.138% ) - results for current tip tree with the patch applied: Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs): 16490788 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.180% ) 2717734941 instructions # 0.502 IPC ( +- 0.079% ) 5414756975 cycles ( +- 0.148% ) 0.206747566 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.137% ) Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp LKML-Reference: <20110307181039.GB15197@jolsa.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86: Add new syscalls for x86_64Aneesh Kumar K.V2011-03-151-0/+2
|/ | | | | | | This patch add new syscalls to x86_64 Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h>Arnd Bergmann2010-11-171-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point, leaving only the #include. Remove this too as a cleanup. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Don't dump task struct in a.out core-dumpsLinus Torvalds2010-10-141-17/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | akiphie points out that a.out core-dumps have that odd task struct dumping that was never used and was never really a good idea (it goes back into the mists of history, probably the original core-dumping code). Just remove it. Also do the access_ok() check on dump_write(). It probably doesn't matter (since normal filesystems all seem to do it anyway), but he points out that it's normally done by the VFS layer, so ... [ I suspect that we should possibly do "vfs_write()" instead of calling ->write directly. That also does the whole fsnotify and write statistics thing, which may or may not be a good idea. ] And just to be anal, do this all for the x86-64 32-bit a.out emulation code too, even though it's not enabled (and won't currently even compile) Reported-by: akiphie <akiphie@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* x86-64, compat: Retruncate rax after ia32 syscall entry tracingRoland McGrath2010-09-141-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit d4d6715, we reopened an old hole for a 64-bit ptracer touching a 32-bit tracee in system call entry. A %rax value set via ptrace at the entry tracing stop gets used whole as a 32-bit syscall number, while we only check the low 32 bits for validity. Fix it by truncating %rax back to 32 bits after syscall_trace_enter, in addition to testing the full 64 bits as has already been added. Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@sota.gen.nz> Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* x86-64, compat: Test %rax for the syscall number, not %eaxH. Peter Anvin2010-09-141-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On 64 bits, we always, by necessity, jump through the system call table via %rax. For 32-bit system calls, in theory the system call number is stored in %eax, and the code was testing %eax for a valid system call number. At one point we loaded the stored value back from the stack to enforce zero-extension, but that was removed in checkin d4d67150165df8bf1cc05e532f6efca96f907cab. An actual 32-bit process will not be able to introduce a non-zero-extended number, but it can happen via ptrace. Instead of re-introducing the zero-extension, test what we are actually going to use, i.e. %rax. This only adds a handful of REX prefixes to the code. Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@sota.gen.nz> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Mark arguments to certain syscalls as being constDavid Howells2010-08-131-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but aren't. The list includes: (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes syscalls and some mount syscalls. (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above. (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* x86: fix up system call numbering nitLinus Torvalds2010-08-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | As pointed out by Jiri Slaby: when I resolved the the 32-bit x85 system call entry tables for prlimit (due to the conflict with fanotify), I forgot to add the numbering in comments that we do for every fifth entry. Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'writable_limits' of git://decibel.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/linuxLinus Torvalds2010-08-101-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'writable_limits' of git://decibel.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/linux: unistd: add __NR_prlimit64 syscall numbers rlimits: implement prlimit64 syscall rlimits: switch more rlimit syscalls to do_prlimit rlimits: redo do_setrlimit to more generic do_prlimit rlimits: add rlimit64 structure rlimits: do security check under task_lock rlimits: allow setrlimit to non-current tasks rlimits: split sys_setrlimit rlimits: selinux, do rlimits changes under task_lock rlimits: make sure ->rlim_max never grows in sys_setrlimit rlimits: add task_struct to update_rlimit_cpu rlimits: security, add task_struct to setrlimit Fix up various system call number conflicts. We not only added fanotify system calls in the meantime, but asm-generic/unistd.h added a wait4 along with a range of reserved per-architecture system calls.
| * unistd: add __NR_prlimit64 syscall numbersJiri Slaby2010-07-161-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add __NR_prlimit64 syscall numbers to asm-generic. Add them also to asm-x86, both 32 and 64-bit. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
* | fanotify: sys_fanotify_mark declartionEric Paris2010-07-282-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch simply declares the new sys_fanotify_mark syscall int fanotify_mark(int fanotify_fd, unsigned int flags, u64_mask, int dfd const char *pathname) Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
* | fanotify: fanotify_init syscall declarationEric Paris2010-07-281-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | This patch defines a new syscall fanotify_init() of the form: int sys_fanotify_init(unsigned int flags, unsigned int event_f_flags, unsigned int priority) This syscall is used to create and fanotify group. This is very similar to the inotify_init() syscall. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
* x86: correctly wire up the newuname system callChristoph Hellwig2010-04-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before commit e28cbf22933d0c0ccaf3c4c27a1a263b41f73859 ("improve sys_newuname() for compat architectures") 64-bit x86 had a private implementation of sys_uname which was just called sys_uname, which other architectures used for the old uname. Due to some merge issues with the uname refactoring patches we ended up calling the old uname version for both the old and new system call slots, which lead to the domainname filed never be set which caused failures with libnss_nis. Reported-and-tested-by: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo2010-03-302-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
* Add generic sys_olduname()Christoph Hellwig2010-03-122-54/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add generic implementations of the old and really old uname system calls. Note that sh only implements sys_olduname but not sys_oldolduname, but I'm not going to bother with another ifdef for that special case. m32r implemented an old uname but never wired it up, so kill it, too. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add generic sys_old_mmap()Christoph Hellwig2010-03-121-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a generic implementation of the old mmap() syscall, which expects its argument in a memory block and switch all architectures over to use it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Add generic sys_old_select()Christoph Hellwig2010-03-122-19/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a generic implementation of the old select() syscall, which expects its argument in a memory block and switch all architectures over to use it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2010-03-031-1/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits) x86: Fix out of order of gsi x86: apic: Fix mismerge, add arch_probe_nr_irqs() again x86, irq: Keep chip_data in create_irq_nr and destroy_irq xen: Remove unnecessary arch specific xen irq functions. smp: Use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids early x86, irq: Remove arch_probe_nr_irqs sparseirq: Use radix_tree instead of ptrs array sparseirq: Change irq_desc_ptrs to static init: Move radix_tree_init() early irq: Remove unnecessary bootmem code x86: Add iMac9,1 to pci_reboot_dmi_table x86: Convert i8259_lock to raw_spinlock x86: Convert nmi_lock to raw_spinlock x86: Convert ioapic_lock and vector_lock to raw_spinlock x86: Avoid race condition in pci_enable_msix() x86: Fix SCI on IOAPIC != 0 x86, ia32_aout: do not kill argument mapping x86, irq: Move __setup_vector_irq() before the first irq enable in cpu online path x86, irq: Update the vector domain for legacy irqs handled by io-apic x86, irq: Don't block IRQ0_VECTOR..IRQ15_VECTOR's on all cpu's ...
| * x86, ia32_aout: do not kill argument mappingJiri Slaby2010-02-101-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Do not set current->mm->mmap to NULL in 32-bit emulation on 64-bit load_aout_binary after flush_old_exec as it would destroy already set brpm mapping with arguments. Introduced by b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba mm: variable length argument support where the argument mapping in bprm was added. [ hpa: this is a regression from 2.6.22... time to kill a.out? ] Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> LKML-Reference: <1265831716-7668-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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*-. \ Merge branches 'core-ipi-for-linus', 'core-locking-for-linus', ↵Linus Torvalds2010-02-281-1/+1
|\ \ \ | |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'tracing-fixes-for-linus', 'x86-debug-for-linus', 'x86-doc-for-linus', 'x86-gpu-for-linus' and 'x86-rlimit-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: generic-ipi: Optimize accesses by using DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for IPI data * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: plist: Fix grammar mistake, and c-style mistake * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: kprobes: Add mcount to the kprobes blacklist * 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86_64: Print modules like i386 does * 'x86-doc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Put 'nopat' in kernel-parameters * 'x86-gpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86-64: Allow fbdev primary video code * 'x86-rlimit-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Use helpers for rlimits
| | * x86: Use helpers for rlimitsJiri Slaby2010-01-271-1/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make sure compiler won't do weird things with limits. Fetching them twice may return 2 different values after writable limits are implemented. We can either use rlimit helpers added in 3e10e716abf3c71bdb5d86b8f507f9e72236c9cd or ACCESS_ONCE if not applicable; this patch uses the helpers. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> LKML-Reference: <1264609942-24621-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* | x86: get rid of the insane TIF_ABI_PENDING bitH. Peter Anvin2010-01-291-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that the previous commit made it possible to do the personality setting at the point of no return, we do just that for ELF binaries. And suddenly all the reasons for that insane TIF_ABI_PENDING bit go away, and we can just make SET_PERSONALITY() just do the obvious thing for a 32-bit compat process. Everything becomes much more straightforward this way. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functionsLinus Torvalds2010-01-291-4/+6
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'flush_old_exec()' is the point of no return when doing an execve(), and it is pretty badly misnamed. It doesn't just flush the old executable environment, it also starts up the new one. Which is very inconvenient for things like setting up the new personality, because we want the new personality to affect the starting of the new environment, but at the same time we do _not_ want the new personality to take effect if flushing the old one fails. As a result, the x86-64 '32-bit' personality is actually done using this insane "I'm going to change the ABI, but I haven't done it yet" bit (TIF_ABI_PENDING), with SET_PERSONALITY() not actually setting the personality, but just the "pending" bit, so that "flush_thread()" can do the actual personality magic. This patch in no way changes any of that insanity, but it does split the 'flush_old_exec()' function up into a preparatory part that can fail (still called flush_old_exec()), and a new part that will actually set up the new exec environment (setup_new_exec()). All callers are changed to trivially comply with the new world order. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Unify sys_mmap*Al Viro2009-12-112-43/+2
| | | | | | | New helper - sys_mmap_pgoff(); switch syscalls to using it. Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-12-081-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1815 commits) mac80211: fix reorder buffer release iwmc3200wifi: Enable wimax core through module parameter iwmc3200wifi: Add wifi-wimax coexistence mode as a module parameter iwmc3200wifi: Coex table command does not expect a response iwmc3200wifi: Update wiwi priority table iwlwifi: driver version track kernel version iwlwifi: indicate uCode type when fail dump error/event log iwl3945: remove duplicated event logging code b43: fix two warnings ipw2100: fix rebooting hang with driver loaded cfg80211: indent regulatory messages with spaces iwmc3200wifi: fix NULL pointer dereference in pmkid update mac80211: Fix TX status reporting for injected data frames ath9k: enable 2GHz band only if the device supports it airo: Fix integer overflow warning rt2x00: Fix padding bug on L2PAD devices. WE: Fix set events not propagated b43legacy: avoid PPC fault during resume b43: avoid PPC fault during resume tcp: fix a timewait refcnt race ... Fix up conflicts due to sysctl cleanups (dead sysctl_check code and CTL_UNNUMBERED removed) in kernel/sysctl_check.c net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c net/ipv6/addrconf.c net/sctp/sysctl.c
| * Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller2009-11-181-16/+25
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/sfc/sfe4001.c drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c drivers/staging/Kconfig drivers/staging/Makefile drivers/staging/rtl8187se/Kconfig drivers/staging/rtl8192e/Kconfig
| * | net: Introduce recvmmsg socket syscallArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-10-121-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Meaning receive multiple messages, reducing the number of syscalls and net stack entry/exit operations. Next patches will introduce mechanisms where protocols that want to optimize this operation will provide an unlocked_recvmsg operation. This takes into account comments made by: . Paul Moore: sock_recvmsg is called only for the first datagram, sock_recvmsg_nosec is used for the rest. . Caitlin Bestler: recvmmsg now has a struct timespec timeout, that works in the same fashion as the ppoll one. If the underlying protocol returns a datagram with MSG_OOB set, this will make recvmmsg return right away with as many datagrams (+ the OOB one) it has received so far. . Rémi Denis-Courmont & Steven Whitehouse: If we receive N < vlen datagrams and then recvmsg returns an error, recvmmsg will return the successfully received datagrams, store the error and return it in the next call. This paves the way for a subsequent optimization, sk_prot->unlocked_recvmsg, where we will be able to acquire the lock only at batch start and end, not at every underlying recvmsg call. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | sysctl: x86 Use the compat_sys_sysctlEric W. Biederman2009-11-062-57/+1
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we have a generic 32bit compatibility implementation there is no need for x86 to implement it's own. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
* | x86-64: Fix register leak in 32-bit syscall audtingJan Beulich2009-10-261-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Restoring %ebp after the call to audit_syscall_exit() is not only unnecessary (because the register didn't get clobbered), but in the sysenter case wasn't even doing the right thing: It loaded %ebp from a location below the top of stack (RBP < ARGOFFSET), i.e. arbitrary kernel data got passed back to user mode in the register. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <4AE5CC4D020000780001BD13@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86: Don't leak 64-bit kernel register values to 32-bit processesJan Beulich2009-10-011-13/+23
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | While 32-bit processes can't directly access R8...R15, they can gain access to these registers by temporarily switching themselves into 64-bit mode. Therefore, registers not preserved anyway by called C functions (i.e. R8...R11) must be cleared prior to returning to user mode. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <4AC34D73020000780001744A@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance EventsIngo Molnar2009-09-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86, 32-bit: Use generic sys_pipe()Amerigo Wang2009-08-082-15/+1
| | | | | | | | | As suggested by Al, it's better to use the generic sys_pipe() for ia32. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'core/signal' into perfcounters/coreThomas Gleixner2009-04-301-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is necessary to avoid the conflict of syscall numbers. Conflicts: arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h Fixes up the borked syscall numbers of perfcounters versus preadv/pwritev as well. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * x86: hookup sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfoThomas Gleixner2009-04-301-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Make the new sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo available for x86. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar2009-04-291-14/+5
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: This brach was on -rc1, refresh it to almost-rc4 to pick up the latest upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * Separate out common fstatat code into vfs_fstatatOleg Drokin2009-04-201-14/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a version incorporating Christoph's suggestion. Separate out common *fstatat functionality into a single function instead of duplicating it all over the code. Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core-v2Ingo Molnar2009-04-062-23/+3
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: we have gathered quite a few conflicts, need to merge upstream Conflicts: arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c arch/x86/kernel/irq.c arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c include/linux/sched.h kernel/Makefile Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * preadv/pwritev: Add preadv and pwritev system calls.Gerd Hoffmann2009-04-021-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds preadv and pwritev system calls. These syscalls are a pretty straightforward combination of pread and readv (same for write). They are quite useful for doing vectored I/O in threaded applications. Using lseek+readv instead opens race windows you'll have to plug with locking. Other systems have such system calls too, for example NetBSD, check here: http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/preadv.2.html The application-visible interface provided by glibc should look like this to be compatible to the existing implementations in the *BSD family: ssize_t preadv(int d, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, off_t offset); ssize_t pwritev(int d, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, off_t offset); This prototype has one problem though: On 32bit archs is the (64bit) offset argument unaligned, which the syscall ABI of several archs doesn't allow to do. At least s390 needs a wrapper in glibc to handle this. As we'll need a wrappers in glibc anyway I've decided to push problem to glibc entriely and use a syscall prototype which works without arch-specific wrappers inside the kernel: The offset argument is explicitly splitted into two 32bit values. The patch sports the actual system call implementation and the windup in the x86 system call tables. Other archs follow as separate patches. Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * Merge branch 'linus' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2Ingo Molnar2009-03-282-23/+1
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/sparc/kernel/time_64.c drivers/gpu/drm/drm_proc.c Manual merge to resolve build warning due to phys_addr_t type change on x86: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_info.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * generic compat_sys_ustatChristoph Hellwig2009-03-272-23/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to a different size of ino_t ustat needs a compat handler, but currently only x86 and mips provide one. Add a generic compat_sys_ustat and switch all architectures over to it. Instead of doing various user copy hacks compat_sys_ustat just reimplements sys_ustat as it's trivial. This was suggested by Arnd Bergmann. Found by Eric Sandeen when running xfstests/017 on ppc64, which causes stack smashing warnings on RHEL/Fedora due to the too large amount of data writen by the syscall. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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