linux-toradex.git/arch/arm/kernel/process.c, branch v3.4.73

ARM: 7466/1: disable interrupt before spinning endlessly

2012-08-15T15:10:05+00:00

commit 98bd8b96b26db3399a48202318dca4aaa2515355 upstream.

The CPU will endlessly spin at the end of machine_halt and
machine_restart calls.  However, this will lead to a soft lockup
warning after about 20 seconds, if CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR is enabled,
as system timer is still alive.

Disable interrupt before going to spin endlessly, so that the lockup
warning will never be seen.

Reported-by: Marek Vasut 
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo 
Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm

2012-03-29T23:53:48+00:00

Pull more ARM updates from Russell King.

This got a fair number of conflicts with the  split, but
also with some other sparse-irq and header file include cleanups.  They
all looked pretty trivial, though.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (59 commits)
  ARM: fix Kconfig warning for HAVE_BPF_JIT
  ARM: 7361/1: provide XIP_VIRT_ADDR for no-MMU builds
  ARM: 7349/1: integrator: convert to sparse irqs
  ARM: 7259/3: net: JIT compiler for packet filters
  ARM: 7334/1: add jump label support
  ARM: 7333/2: jump label: detect %c support for ARM
  ARM: 7338/1: add support for early console output via semihosting
  ARM: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
  ARM: exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)
  ARM: 7332/1: extract out code patch function from kprobes
  ARM: 7331/1: extract out insn generation code from ftrace
  ARM: 7330/1: ftrace: use canonical Thumb-2 wide instruction format
  ARM: 7351/1: ftrace: remove useless memory checks
  ARM: 7316/1: kexec: EOI active and mask all interrupts in kexec crash path
  ARM: Versatile Express: add NO_IOPORT
  ARM: get rid of asm/irq.h in asm/prom.h
  ARM: 7319/1: Print debug info for SIGBUS in user faults
  ARM: 7318/1: gic: refactor irq_start assignment
  ARM: 7317/1: irq: avoid NULL check in for_each_irq_desc loop
  ARM: 7315/1: perf: add support for the Cortex-A7 PMU
  ...

Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system

2012-03-28T22:58:21+00:00

Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
 "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
  separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
  dependencies.

  I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
  and made sure that they don't break.

  The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
  dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
  optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().

  This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
  asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.

  The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h.  It holds a number of
  low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
  memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
  aren't used in many places (eg.  switch_to()).

  These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:

    (1) asm/barrier.h

        Move memory barriers here.  This already done for MIPS and Alpha.

    (2) asm/switch_to.h

        Move switch_to() and related stuff here.

    (3) asm/exec.h

        Move arch_align_stack() here.  Other process execution related bits
        could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.

    (4) asm/cmpxchg.h

        Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
        frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().

    (5) asm/bug.h

        Move die() and related bits.

    (6) asm/auxvec.h

        Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.

  Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."

Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that.  We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..

* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
  Delete all instances of asm/system.h
  Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
  Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
  Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
  Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
  Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
  Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
  Create asm-generic/barrier.h
  Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
  Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
  ...

Disintegrate asm/system.h for ARM

2012-03-28T17:30:01+00:00

Disintegrate asm/system.h for ARM.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
cc: Russell King 
cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org

Merge branch 'devel-stable' into for-linus

2012-03-27T10:30:31+00:00

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/Kconfig.debug
	arch/arm/plat-versatile/Kconfig
Merge fixes:
	arch/arm/mach-integrator/Kconfig
	drivers/clocksource/Kconfig

ARM: 7294/1: vectors: use gate_vma for vectors user mapping

2012-03-24T09:38:51+00:00

The current user mapping for the vectors page is inserted as a `horrible
hack vma' into each task via arch_setup_additional_pages. This causes
problems with the MM subsystem and vm_normal_page, as described here:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/14/55

Following the suggestion from Hugh in the above thread, this patch uses
the gate_vma for the vectors user mapping, therefore consolidating
the horrible hack VMAs into one.

Acked-and-Tested-by: Nicolas Pitre 

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

Merge branch 'for-armsoc' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm

2012-03-24T00:30:49+00:00

Pull #1 ARM updates from Russell King:
 "This one covers stuff which Arnd is waiting for me to push, as this is
  shared between both our trees and probably other trees elsewhere.

  Essentially, this contains:
   - AMBA primecell device initializer updates - mostly shrinking the
     size of the device declarations in platform code to something more
     reasonable.
   - Getting rid of the NO_IRQ crap from AMBA primecell stuff.
   - Nicolas' idle cleanups.  This in combination with the restart
     cleanups from the last merge window results in a great many
     mach/system.h files being deleted."

Yay: ~80 files, ~2000 lines deleted.

* 'for-armsoc' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (60 commits)
  ARM: remove disable_fiq and arch_ret_to_user macros
  ARM: make entry-macro.S depend on !MULTI_IRQ_HANDLER
  ARM: rpc: make default fiq handler run-time installed
  ARM: make arch_ret_to_user macro optional
  ARM: amba: samsung: use common amba device initializers
  ARM: amba: spear: use common amba device initializers
  ARM: amba: nomadik: use common amba device initializers
  ARM: amba: u300: use common amba device initializers
  ARM: amba: lpc32xx: use common amba device initializers
  ARM: amba: netx: use common amba device initializers
  ARM: amba: bcmring: use common amba device initializers
  ARM: amba: ep93xx: use common amba device initializers
  ARM: amba: omap2: use common amba device initializers
  ARM: amba: integrator: use common amba device initializers
  ARM: amba: realview: get rid of private platform amba_device initializer
  ARM: amba: versatile: get rid of private platform amba_device initializer
  ARM: amba: vexpress: get rid of private platform amba_device initializer
  ARM: amba: provide common initializers for static amba devices
  ARM: amba: make use of -1 IRQs warn
  ARM: amba: u300: get rid of NO_IRQ initializers
  ...

coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag

2012-03-23T23:58:42+00:00

The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a
qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which
can be quite large.  There are already a number of filter flags in
/proc//coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types'
of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this
case).

Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates
the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag.  The flag is used internally by
the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages.  However, it is simple
enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need
for this flag.

The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new
'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags:
'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'.  The core dump filters
continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the
region.

The qemu code which implements this features is at:

  http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch

In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -> 13MB with this
patch.

I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for
security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are
dumped.

This patch:

The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to
indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section.  However, we
can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against
the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from
arch_vma_name().  Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron 
Acked-by: Roland McGrath 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Avi Kivity 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/rt: Use schedule_preempt_disabled()

2012-03-01T09:28:03+00:00

Coccinelle based conversion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-24swm5zut3h9c4a6s46x8rws@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ARM: substitute arch_idle()

2012-01-20T23:55:19+00:00

Now that all implementations of arch_idle() are equivalent to cpu_do_idle()
we can just use the later directly and stop including mach/system.h.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre 
Acked-by: H Hartley Sweeten 
Acked-and-tested-by: Jamie Iles 
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren 
Tested-by: Stephen Warren