Typo in down_spin() meant it only read the low 32 bits of the
"serve" value, instead of the full 64 bits. This results in the
system hanging when the values in ticket/serve get larger than
32-bits. A big enough system running the right test can hit this
in a just a few hours.
Broken since 883a3acf5b
[IA64] Re-implement spinaphores using ticket lock concepts
Reported via IRC by Bjorn Helgaas
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Add a spin_unlock missing on the error path.
The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression E1;
@@
* spin_lock(E1,...);
<+... when != E1
if (...) {
... when != E1
* return ...;
}
...+>
* spin_unlock(E1,...);
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
* 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (81 commits)
kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflict
kbuild: Fix checking of scm-identifier variable
gconfig: add support to show hidden options that have prompts
menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts
gconfig: remove show_debug option
gconfig: remove dbg_print_ptype() and dbg_print_stype()
kconfig: fix zconfdump()
kconfig: some small fixes
add random binaries to .gitignore
kbuild: Include gen_initramfs_list.sh and the file list in the .d file
kconfig: recalc symbol value before showing search results
.gitignore: ignore *.lzo files
headerdep: perlcritic warning
scripts/Makefile.lib: Align the output of LZO
kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules_install
Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope"
kbuild: Do not unnecessarily regenerate modules.builtin
headers_install: use local file handles
headers_check: fix perl warnings
export_report: fix perl warnings
...
This partially reverts commit 4ec37de89d
("[IA64] Fix build breakage"), since the commit that made it necessary
got reverted earlier (see commit 35926ff5fb, 'Revert "cpusets:
randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()"')
Even if we ever re-introduce this, there is no reason to make
__node_random be some architecture-specific function.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In commit 0ac0c0d0f8
cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()
Jack Steiner fixed a problem with too many small tasks being
assigned to node 0. Copy his code to ia64 to avoid build error.
arch/ia64/kernel/smpboot.c:641: error: ‘cpu_to_node_map’ undeclared (first use in this function)
In commit 3bccd99627
numa: ia64: use generic percpu var numa_node_id() implementation
Lee Schermerhorn added some set_numa_node() calls - but these
only work on CONFIG_NUMA=y configurations. Surround the calls
with #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
There are more architectures that don't support ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN than
those that support it. This removes removes ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN in
asm-generic/scatterlist.h and lets arhictectures to define it.
It's clearer than defining ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN asm-generic/scatterlist.h and
undefing it in arhictectures that don't support it.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are only two ways to define sg_dma_len(); use sg->dma_length or
sg->length. This patch introduces NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH that enables
architectures to choose sg->dma_length or sg->length.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.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>
sync_single_range_for_cpu and sync_single_range_for_device hooks in
swiotlb_dma_ops are unnecessary because sync_single_for_cpu and
sync_single_for_device are used there.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Preparation to make task->signal immutable, no functional changes.
It doesn't matter which pointer we check under tasklist to ensure the task
was not released, ->signal or ->sighand. But we are going to make
->signal refcountable, change the code to use ->sighand.
Note: this code doesn't need this check and tasklist_lock at all, it
should be converted to use lock_task_sighand(). And, the code under
SIGNAL_STOP_STOPPED check looks wrong.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'bkl/ioctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing:
uml: Pushdown the bkl from harddog_kern ioctl
sunrpc: Pushdown the bkl from sunrpc cache ioctl
sunrpc: Pushdown the bkl from ioctl
autofs4: Pushdown the bkl from ioctl
uml: Convert to unlocked_ioctls to remove implicit BKL
ncpfs: BKL ioctl pushdown
coda: Clean-up whitespace problems in pioctl.c
coda: BKL ioctl pushdown
drivers: Push down BKL into various drivers
isdn: Push down BKL into ioctl functions
scsi: Push down BKL into ioctl functions
dvb: Push down BKL into ioctl functions
smbfs: Push down BKL into ioctl function
coda/psdev: Remove BKL from ioctl function
um/mmapper: Remove BKL usage
sn_hwperf: Kill BKL usage
hfsplus: Push down BKL into ioctl function
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (269 commits)
KVM: x86: Add missing locking to arch specific vcpu ioctls
KVM: PPC: Add missing vcpu_load()/vcpu_put() in vcpu ioctls
KVM: MMU: Segregate shadow pages with different cr0.wp
KVM: x86: Check LMA bit before set_efer
KVM: Don't allow lmsw to clear cr0.pe
KVM: Add cpuid.txt file
KVM: x86: Tell the guest we'll warn it about tsc stability
x86, paravirt: don't compute pvclock adjustments if we trust the tsc
x86: KVM guest: Try using new kvm clock msrs
KVM: x86: export paravirtual cpuid flags in KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID
KVM: x86: add new KVMCLOCK cpuid feature
KVM: x86: change msr numbers for kvmclock
x86, paravirt: Add a global synchronization point for pvclock
x86, paravirt: Enable pvclock flags in vcpu_time_info structure
KVM: x86: Inject #GP with the right rip on efer writes
KVM: SVM: Don't allow nested guest to VMMCALL into host
KVM: x86: Fix exception reinjection forced to true
KVM: Fix wallclock version writing race
KVM: MMU: Don't read pdptrs with mmu spinlock held in mmu_alloc_roots
KVM: VMX: enable VMXON check with SMX enabled (Intel TXT)
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (44 commits)
vlynq: make whole Kconfig-menu dependant on architecture
add descriptive comment for TIF_MEMDIE task flag declaration.
EEPROM: max6875: Header file cleanup
EEPROM: 93cx6: Header file cleanup
EEPROM: Header file cleanup
agp: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed
rtc-v3020: make bitfield unsigned
PCI: make bitfield unsigned
jbd2: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed
cciss: fix shadows sparse warning
doc: inode uses a mutex instead of a semaphore.
uml: i386: Avoid redefinition of NR_syscalls
fix "seperate" typos in comments
cocbalt_lcdfb: correct sections
doc: Change urls for sparse
Powerpc: wii: Fix typo in comment
i2o: cleanup some exit paths
Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate
UML: Fix compiler warning due to missing task_struct declaration
UML: add kernel.h include to signal.c
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
ia64: add sparse annotation to __ia64_per_cpu_var()
percpu: implement kernel memory based chunk allocation
percpu: move vmalloc based chunk management into percpu-vm.c
percpu: misc preparations for nommu support
percpu: reorganize chunk creation and destruction
percpu: factor out pcpu_addr_in_first/reserved_chunk() and update per_cpu_ptr_to_phys()
* 'timers-for-linus-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
avr32: Fix typo in read_persistent_clock()
sparc: Convert sparc to use read/update_persistent_clock
cris: Convert cris to use read/update_persistent_clock
m68k: Convert m68k to use read/update_persistent_clock
m32r: Convert m32r to use read/update_peristent_clock
blackfin: Convert blackfin to use read/update_persistent_clock
ia64: Convert ia64 to use read/update_persistent_clock
avr32: Convert avr32 to use read/update_persistent_clock
h8300: Convert h8300 to use read/update_persistent_clock
frv: Convert frv to use read/update_persistent_clock
mn10300: Convert mn10300 to use read/update_persistent_clock
alpha: Convert alpha to use read/update_persistent_clock
xtensa: Fix unnecessary setting of xtime
time: Clean up direct xtime usage in xen
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] Drop duplicated "config IOMMU_HELPER"
[IA64] invoke oom-killer from page fault
[IA64] use __ratelimit
[IA64] Use set_cpus_allowed_ptr
[IA64] Use set_cpus_allowed_ptr
[IA64] arch/ia64/hp/common/sba_iommu.c: Rename dev_info to adi
[IA64] removing redundant ifdef
vmx and svm vcpus have different contents and therefore may have different
alignmment requirements. Let each specify its required alignment.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
One entry for this in arch/ia64/Kconfig should be enough.
Reported-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge@cs.fau.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
As explained in commit 1c0fe6e3bd, we want to call the architecture independent
oom killer when getting an unexplained OOM from handle_mm_fault, rather than
simply killing current.
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Replace open-coded rate limiting logic with __ratelimit().
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
There is a macro called dev_info that prints struct device specific
information. Having variables with the same name can be confusing and
prevents conversion of the macro to a function.
Rename the existing dev_info variables to something else in preparation
to converting the dev_info macro to a function.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Pointless to use #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA in code that is
already inside another #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* 'core-hweight-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, hweight: Use a 32-bit popcnt for __arch_hweight32()
arch, hweight: Fix compilation errors
x86: Add optimized popcnt variants
bitops: Optimize hweight() by making use of compile-time evaluation
* 'x86-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, acpi/irq: Define gsi_end when X86_IO_APIC is undefined
x86, irq: Kill io_apic_renumber_irq
x86, acpi/irq: Handle isa irqs that are not identity mapped to gsi's.
x86, ioapic: Simplify probe_nr_irqs_gsi.
x86, ioapic: Optimize pin_2_irq
x86, ioapic: Move nr_ioapic_registers calculation to mp_register_ioapic.
x86, ioapic: In mpparse use mp_register_ioapic
x86, ioapic: Teach mp_register_ioapic to compute a global gsi_end
x86, ioapic: Fix the types of gsi values
x86, ioapic: Fix io_apic_redir_entries to return the number of entries.
x86, ioapic: Only export mp_find_ioapic and mp_find_ioapic_pin in io_apic.h
x86, acpi/irq: Generalize mp_config_acpi_legacy_irqs
x86, acpi/irq: Fix acpi_sci_ioapic_setup so it has both bus_irq and gsi
x86, acpi/irq: pci device dev->irq is an isa irq not a gsi
x86, acpi/irq: Teach acpi_get_override_irq to take a gsi not an isa_irq
x86, acpi/irq: Introduce apci_isa_irq_to_gsi
In preparation for removing volatile from the atomic_t definition, this
patch adds a volatile cast to all the atomic read functions.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If no irq chip in kernel, ioctl KVM_IRQ_LINE will return -EFAULT.
But I see in other place such as KVM_[GET|SET]IRQCHIP, -ENXIO is
return. So this patch used -ENXIO instead of -EFAULT.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
The ioctl KVM_IA64_VCPU_GET_STACK does not set the error code if
copy_to_user() fail, and 0 will be return, we should use -EFAULT
instead of 0 in this case, so this patch fixed it.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This driver always gave up the BKL in its ioctl function, so just
convert it to unlocked_ioctl and remove the BKL here.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
ia64 has its own optimized percpu accessor - __ia64_per_cpu_var().
Add percpu sparse annotations to it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
There are a number of cases where the current code makes the assumption
that isa irqs identity map to the first 16 acpi global system intereupts.
In most instances that assumption is correct as that is the required
behaviour in dual i8259 mode and the default behavior in ioapic mode.
However there are some systems out there that take advantage of acpis
interrupt remapping for the isa irqs to have a completely different
mapping of isa_irq to gsi.
Introduce acpi_isa_irq_to_gsi to perform this mapping explicitly in the
code that needs it. Initially this will be just the current assumed
identity mapping to ensure it's introduction does not cause regressions.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
LKML-Reference: <1269936436-7039-1-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Int is not long enough to store the size of a dirty bitmap.
This patch fixes this problem with the introduction of a wrapper
function to calculate the sizes of dirty bitmaps.
Note: in mark_page_dirty(), we have to consider the fact that
__set_bit() takes the offset as int, not long.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Rename the extisting runtime hweight() implementations to
__arch_hweight(), rename the compile-time versions to __const_hweight()
and then have hweight() pick between them.
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100318111929.GB11152@aftab>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265028224.24455.154.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The acpi_pci_root structure contains all the individual items (acpi_device,
domain, bus number) we pass to pci_acpi_scan_root(), so just pass the
single acpi_pci_root pointer directly.
This will make it easier to add _CBA support later. For _CBA, we need the
entire downstream bus range, not just the base bus number. We have that in
the acpi_pci_root structure, so passing the pointer makes it available to
the arch-specific code.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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>
Now that the early _PDC evaluation path knows how to correctly
evaluate _PDC on only physically present processors, there's no
need for the processor driver to evaluate it later when it loads.
To cover the hotplug case, push _PDC evaluation down into the
hotplug paths.
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
acpi=ht was important in 2003 -- before ACPI was
universally deployed and enabled by default in
the major Linux distributions.
At that time, there were a fair number of people who
or chose to, or needed to, run with acpi=off,
yet also wanted access to Hyper-threading.
Today we find that many invocations of "acpi=ht"
are accidental, and thus is it possible that it
is doing more harm than good.
In 2.6.34, we warn on invocation of acpi=ht.
In 2.6.35, we delete the boot option.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
This patch converts the ia64 architecture to use the generic
read_persistent_clock and update_persistent_clock interfaces, reducing
the amount of arch specific code we have to maintain, and allowing for
further cleanups in the future.
I have not built or tested this patch, so help from arch maintainers
would be appreciated.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1267675049-12337-8-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits)
doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage
Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
doc: fix console doc typo
doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file
Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed
Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog
Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog
doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm"
tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -> "associate" in comments
No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h
devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment
Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu
tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code
drm/kms: fix spelling in error message
doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc
devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/
Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros
fix typo "definetly" -> "definitely" in comment
tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments
...
Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
All the architectures properly set NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE now so we can safely
add linux/pci-dma.h to linux/pci.h and remove the linux/pci-dma.h
inclusion in arch's asm/pci.h
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While in theory user_enable_single_step/user_disable_single_step/
user_enable_blockstep could also be provided as an inline or macro there's
no good reason to do so, and having the prototype in one places keeps code
size and confusion down.
Roland said:
The original thought there was that user_enable_single_step() et al
might well be only an instruction or three on a sane machine (as if we
have any of those!), and since there is only one call site inlining
would be beneficial. But I agree that there is no strong reason to care
about inlining it.
As to the arch changes, there is only one thought I'd add to the
record. It was always my thinking that for an arch where
PTRACE_SINGLESTEP does text-modifying breakpoint insertion,
user_enable_single_step() should not be provided. That is,
arch_has_single_step()=>true means that there is an arch facility with
"pure" semantics that does not have any unexpected side effects.
Inserting a breakpoint might do very unexpected strange things in
multi-threaded situations. Aside from that, it is a peculiar side
effect that user_{enable,disable}_single_step() should cause COW
de-sharing of text pages and so forth. For PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, all these
peculiarities are the status quo ante for that arch, so having
arch_ptrace() itself do those is one thing. But for building other
things in the future, it is nicer to have a uniform "pure" semantics
that arch-independent code can expect.
OTOH, all such arch issues are really up to the arch maintainer. As
of today, there is nothing but ptrace using user_enable_single_step() et
al so it's a distinction without a practical difference. If/when there
are other facilities that use user_enable_single_step() and might care,
the affected arch's can revisit the question when someone cares about
the quality of the arch support for said new facility.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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>
Arnaud Lacombe