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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/metag, branch v3.16.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>hugetlb: restrict hugepage_migration_support() to x86_64</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T23:53:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T23:05:35+00:00</published>
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Currently hugepage migration is available for all archs which support
pmd-level hugepage, but testing is done only for x86_64 and there're
bugs for other archs.  So to avoid breaking such archs, this patch
limits the availability strictly to x86_64 until developers of other
archs get interested in enabling this feature.

Simply disabling hugepage migration on non-x86_64 archs is not enough to
fix the reported problem where sys_move_pages() hits the BUG_ON() in
follow_page(FOLL_GET), so let's fix this by checking if hugepage
migration is supported in vma_migratable().

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Currently hugepage migration is available for all archs which support
pmd-level hugepage, but testing is done only for x86_64 and there're
bugs for other archs.  So to avoid breaking such archs, this patch
limits the availability strictly to x86_64 until developers of other
archs get interested in enabling this feature.

Simply disabling hugepage migration on non-x86_64 archs is not enough to
fix the reported problem where sys_move_pages() hits the BUG_ON() in
follow_page(FOLL_GET), so let's fix this by checking if hugepage
migration is supported in vma_migratable().

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'devicetree-for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T17:02:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T17:02:38+00:00</published>
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Pull DeviceTree updates from Rob Herring:
 - Another round of clean-up of FDT related code in architecture code.
   This removes knowledge of internal FDT details from most
   architectures except powerpc.
 - Conversion of kernel's custom FDT parsing code to use libfdt.
 - DT based initialization for generic serial earlycon.  The
   introduction of generic serial earlycon support went in through the
   tty tree.
 - Improve the platform device naming for DT probed devices to ensure
   unique naming and use parent names instead of a global index.
 - Fix a race condition in of_update_property.
 - Unify the various linker section OF match tables and fix several
   function prototype errors.
 - Update platform_get_irq_byname to work in deferred probe cases.
 - 2 binding doc updates

* tag 'devicetree-for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux: (58 commits)
  of: handle NULL node in next_child iterators
  of/irq: provide more wrappers for !CONFIG_OF
  devicetree: bindings: Document micrel vendor prefix
  dt: bindings: dwc2: fix required value for the phy-names property
  of_pci_irq: kill useless variable in of_irq_parse_pci()
  of/irq: do irq resolution in platform_get_irq_byname()
  of: Add a testcase for of_find_node_by_path()
  of: Make of_find_node_by_path() handle /aliases
  of: Create unlocked version of for_each_child_of_node()
  lib: add glibc style strchrnul() variant
  of: Handle memory@0 node on PPC32 only
  pci/of: Remove dead code
  of: fix race between search and remove in of_update_property()
  of: Use NULL for pointers
  of: Stop naming platform_device using dcr address
  of: Ensure unique names without sacrificing determinism
  tty/serial: pl011: add DT based earlycon support
  of/fdt: add FDT serial scanning for earlycon
  of/fdt: add FDT address translation support
  serial: earlycon: add DT support
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Pull DeviceTree updates from Rob Herring:
 - Another round of clean-up of FDT related code in architecture code.
   This removes knowledge of internal FDT details from most
   architectures except powerpc.
 - Conversion of kernel's custom FDT parsing code to use libfdt.
 - DT based initialization for generic serial earlycon.  The
   introduction of generic serial earlycon support went in through the
   tty tree.
 - Improve the platform device naming for DT probed devices to ensure
   unique naming and use parent names instead of a global index.
 - Fix a race condition in of_update_property.
 - Unify the various linker section OF match tables and fix several
   function prototype errors.
 - Update platform_get_irq_byname to work in deferred probe cases.
 - 2 binding doc updates

* tag 'devicetree-for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux: (58 commits)
  of: handle NULL node in next_child iterators
  of/irq: provide more wrappers for !CONFIG_OF
  devicetree: bindings: Document micrel vendor prefix
  dt: bindings: dwc2: fix required value for the phy-names property
  of_pci_irq: kill useless variable in of_irq_parse_pci()
  of/irq: do irq resolution in platform_get_irq_byname()
  of: Add a testcase for of_find_node_by_path()
  of: Make of_find_node_by_path() handle /aliases
  of: Create unlocked version of for_each_child_of_node()
  lib: add glibc style strchrnul() variant
  of: Handle memory@0 node on PPC32 only
  pci/of: Remove dead code
  of: fix race between search and remove in of_update_property()
  of: Use NULL for pointers
  of: Stop naming platform_device using dcr address
  of: Ensure unique names without sacrificing determinism
  tty/serial: pl011: add DT based earlycon support
  of/fdt: add FDT serial scanning for earlycon
  of/fdt: add FDT address translation support
  serial: earlycon: add DT support
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-03T21:00:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-03T21:00:15+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main scheduling related changes in this cycle were:

   - various sched/numa updates, for better performance

   - tree wide cleanup of open coded nice levels

   - nohz fix related to rq-&gt;nr_running use

   - cpuidle changes and continued consolidation to improve the
     kernel/sched/idle.c high level idle scheduling logic.  As part of
     this effort I pulled cpuidle driver changes from Rafael as well.

   - standardized idle polling amongst architectures

   - continued work on preparing better power/energy aware scheduling

   - sched/rt updates

   - misc fixlets and cleanups"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (49 commits)
  sched/numa: Decay -&gt;wakee_flips instead of zeroing
  sched/numa: Update migrate_improves/degrades_locality()
  sched/numa: Allow task switch if load imbalance improves
  sched/rt: Fix 'struct sched_dl_entity' and dl_task_time() comments, to match the current upstream code
  sched: Consolidate open coded implementations of nice level frobbing into nice_to_rlimit() and rlimit_to_nice()
  sched: Initialize rq-&gt;age_stamp on processor start
  sched, nohz: Change rq-&gt;nr_running to always use wrappers
  sched: Fix the rq-&gt;next_balance logic in rebalance_domains() and idle_balance()
  sched: Use clamp() and clamp_val() to make sys_nice() more readable
  sched: Do not zero sg-&gt;cpumask and sg-&gt;sgp-&gt;power in build_sched_groups()
  sched/numa: Fix initialization of sched_domain_topology for NUMA
  sched: Call select_idle_sibling() when not affine_sd
  sched: Simplify return logic in sched_read_attr()
  sched: Simplify return logic in sched_copy_attr()
  sched: Fix exec_start/task_hot on migrated tasks
  arm64: Remove TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG
  metag: Remove TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG
  sched/idle: Make cpuidle_idle_call() void
  sched/idle: Reflow cpuidle_idle_call()
  sched/idle: Delay clearing the polling bit
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main scheduling related changes in this cycle were:

   - various sched/numa updates, for better performance

   - tree wide cleanup of open coded nice levels

   - nohz fix related to rq-&gt;nr_running use

   - cpuidle changes and continued consolidation to improve the
     kernel/sched/idle.c high level idle scheduling logic.  As part of
     this effort I pulled cpuidle driver changes from Rafael as well.

   - standardized idle polling amongst architectures

   - continued work on preparing better power/energy aware scheduling

   - sched/rt updates

   - misc fixlets and cleanups"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (49 commits)
  sched/numa: Decay -&gt;wakee_flips instead of zeroing
  sched/numa: Update migrate_improves/degrades_locality()
  sched/numa: Allow task switch if load imbalance improves
  sched/rt: Fix 'struct sched_dl_entity' and dl_task_time() comments, to match the current upstream code
  sched: Consolidate open coded implementations of nice level frobbing into nice_to_rlimit() and rlimit_to_nice()
  sched: Initialize rq-&gt;age_stamp on processor start
  sched, nohz: Change rq-&gt;nr_running to always use wrappers
  sched: Fix the rq-&gt;next_balance logic in rebalance_domains() and idle_balance()
  sched: Use clamp() and clamp_val() to make sys_nice() more readable
  sched: Do not zero sg-&gt;cpumask and sg-&gt;sgp-&gt;power in build_sched_groups()
  sched/numa: Fix initialization of sched_domain_topology for NUMA
  sched: Call select_idle_sibling() when not affine_sd
  sched: Simplify return logic in sched_read_attr()
  sched: Simplify return logic in sched_copy_attr()
  sched: Fix exec_start/task_hot on migrated tasks
  arm64: Remove TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG
  metag: Remove TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG
  sched/idle: Make cpuidle_idle_call() void
  sched/idle: Reflow cpuidle_idle_call()
  sched/idle: Delay clearing the polling bit
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-03T19:57:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-03T19:57:53+00:00</published>
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Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - reduced/streamlined smp_mb__*() interface that allows more usecases
     and makes the existing ones less buggy, especially in rarer
     architectures

   - add rwsem implementation comments

   - bump up lockdep limits"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field
  lockdep: Increase static allocations
  arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()
  arch,doc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,xtensa: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,x86: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,tile: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sparc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sh: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,score: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,s390: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,powerpc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,parisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,openrisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mn10300: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mips: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,metag: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m68k: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m32r: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,ia64: Convert smp_mb__*()
  ...
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Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - reduced/streamlined smp_mb__*() interface that allows more usecases
     and makes the existing ones less buggy, especially in rarer
     architectures

   - add rwsem implementation comments

   - bump up lockdep limits"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field
  lockdep: Increase static allocations
  arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()
  arch,doc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,xtensa: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,x86: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,tile: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sparc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sh: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,score: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,s390: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,powerpc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,parisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,openrisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mn10300: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mips: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,metag: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m68k: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m32r: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,ia64: Convert smp_mb__*()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v3.15-rc6' into sched/core, to pick up the latest fixes</title>
<updated>2014-05-22T08:28:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-22T08:28:56+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>metag: Remove TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG</title>
<updated>2014-05-22T08:22:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-09T14:36:21+00:00</published>
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The Meta idle function jumps into the interrupt handler which
efficiently blocks waiting for the next interrupt when it reads the
interrupt status register (TXSTATI). No other (polling) idle functions
can be used, therefore TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG is unnecessary, so lets remove
it.

Peter Zijlstra said:
&gt; Most archs have (x86) hlt or (arm) wfi like idle instructions, and if
&gt; that is your only possible idle function, you'll require the interrupt
&gt; to wake up and there's really no point to having the POLLING bit.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/536CEB7E.9080007@imgtec.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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The Meta idle function jumps into the interrupt handler which
efficiently blocks waiting for the next interrupt when it reads the
interrupt status register (TXSTATI). No other (polling) idle functions
can be used, therefore TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG is unnecessary, so lets remove
it.

Peter Zijlstra said:
&gt; Most archs have (x86) hlt or (arm) wfi like idle instructions, and if
&gt; that is your only possible idle function, you'll require the interrupt
&gt; to wake up and there's really no point to having the POLLING bit.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/536CEB7E.9080007@imgtec.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>metag: Remove _STK_LIM_MAX override</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T23:30:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-01T11:31:14+00:00</published>
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Meta overrode _STK_LIM_MAX (the default RLIMIT_STACK hard limit) to
256MB, apparently in an attempt to prevent setup_arg_pages's
STACK_GROWSUP code from choosing the maximum stack size of 1GB, which is
far too large for Meta's limited virtual address space and hits a BUG_ON
(stack_top is usually 0x3ffff000).

However the commit "metag: Reduce maximum stack size to 256MB" reduces
the absolute stack size limit to a safe value for metag. This allows the
default _STK_LIM_MAX override to be removed, bringing the default
behaviour in line with all other architectures. Parisc in particular
recently removed their override of _STK_LIMT_MAX in commit e0d8898d76a7
(parisc: remove _STK_LIM_MAX override) since it subtly affects stack
allocation semantics in userland. Meta's uapi/asm/resource.h can now be
removed and switch to using generic-y.

Suggested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
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Meta overrode _STK_LIM_MAX (the default RLIMIT_STACK hard limit) to
256MB, apparently in an attempt to prevent setup_arg_pages's
STACK_GROWSUP code from choosing the maximum stack size of 1GB, which is
far too large for Meta's limited virtual address space and hits a BUG_ON
(stack_top is usually 0x3ffff000).

However the commit "metag: Reduce maximum stack size to 256MB" reduces
the absolute stack size limit to a safe value for metag. This allows the
default _STK_LIM_MAX override to be removed, bringing the default
behaviour in line with all other architectures. Parisc in particular
recently removed their override of _STK_LIMT_MAX in commit e0d8898d76a7
(parisc: remove _STK_LIM_MAX override) since it subtly affects stack
allocation semantics in userland. Meta's uapi/asm/resource.h can now be
removed and switch to using generic-y.

Suggested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc,metag: Do not hardcode maximum userspace stack size</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T23:01:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-30T21:26:02+00:00</published>
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This patch affects only architectures where the stack grows upwards
(currently parisc and metag only). On those do not hardcode the maximum
initial stack size to 1GB for 32-bit processes, but make it configurable
via a config option.

The main problem with the hardcoded stack size is, that we have two
memory regions which grow upwards: stack and heap. To keep most of the
memory available for heap in a flexmap memory layout, it makes no sense
to hard allocate up to 1GB of the memory for stack which can't be used
as heap then.

This patch makes the stack size for 32-bit processes configurable and
uses 80MB as default value which has been in use during the last few
years on parisc and which hasn't showed any problems yet.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
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This patch affects only architectures where the stack grows upwards
(currently parisc and metag only). On those do not hardcode the maximum
initial stack size to 1GB for 32-bit processes, but make it configurable
via a config option.

The main problem with the hardcoded stack size is, that we have two
memory regions which grow upwards: stack and heap. To keep most of the
memory available for heap in a flexmap memory layout, it makes no sense
to hard allocate up to 1GB of the memory for stack which can't be used
as heap then.

This patch makes the stack size for 32-bit processes configurable and
uses 80MB as default value which has been in use during the last few
years on parisc and which hasn't showed any problems yet.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
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<title>metag: Reduce maximum stack size to 256MB</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T23:00:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-13T22:58:24+00:00</published>
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Specify the maximum stack size for arches where the stack grows upward
(parisc and metag) in asm/processor.h rather than hard coding in
fs/exec.c so that metag can specify a smaller value of 256MB rather than
1GB.

This fixes a BUG on metag if the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is increased
beyond a safe value by root. E.g. when starting a process after running
"ulimit -H -s unlimited" it will then attempt to use a stack size of the
maximum 1GB which is far too big for metag's limited user virtual
address space (stack_top is usually 0x3ffff000):

BUG: failure at fs/exec.c:589/shift_arg_pages()!

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # only needed for &gt;= v3.9 (arch/metag)
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Specify the maximum stack size for arches where the stack grows upward
(parisc and metag) in asm/processor.h rather than hard coding in
fs/exec.c so that metag can specify a smaller value of 256MB rather than
1GB.

This fixes a BUG on metag if the RLIMIT_STACK hard limit is increased
beyond a safe value by root. E.g. when starting a process after running
"ulimit -H -s unlimited" it will then attempt to use a stack size of the
maximum 1GB which is far too big for metag's limited user virtual
address space (stack_top is usually 0x3ffff000):

BUG: failure at fs/exec.c:589/shift_arg_pages()!

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # only needed for &gt;= v3.9 (arch/metag)
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<entry>
<title>metag: fix memory barriers</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T23:00:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-08T19:51:37+00:00</published>
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Volatile access doesn't really imply the compiler barrier. Volatile access
is only ordered with respect to other volatile accesses, it isn't ordered
with respect to general memory accesses. Gcc may reorder memory accesses
around volatile access, as we can see in this simple example (if we
compile it with optimization, both increments of *b will be collapsed to
just one):

void fn(volatile int *a, long *b)
{
	(*b)++;
	*a = 10;
	(*b)++;
}

Consequently, we need the compiler barrier after a write to the volatile
variable, to make sure that the compiler doesn't reorder the volatile
write with something else.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
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Volatile access doesn't really imply the compiler barrier. Volatile access
is only ordered with respect to other volatile accesses, it isn't ordered
with respect to general memory accesses. Gcc may reorder memory accesses
around volatile access, as we can see in this simple example (if we
compile it with optimization, both increments of *b will be collapsed to
just one):

void fn(volatile int *a, long *b)
{
	(*b)++;
	*a = 10;
	(*b)++;
}

Consequently, we need the compiler barrier after a write to the volatile
variable, to make sure that the compiler doesn't reorder the volatile
write with something else.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
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