linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/lib, branch v2.6.32.40

powerpc: Fix handling of strncmp with zero len

2010-07-05T18:10:44+00:00

commit 637a99022fb119b90fb281715d13172f0394fc12 upstream.

Commit 0119536c, which added the assembly version of strncmp to
powerpc, mentions that it adds two instructions to the version from
boot/string.S to allow it to handle len=0. Unfortunately, it doesn't
always return 0 when that is the case. The length is passed in r5, but
the return value is passed back in r3. In certain cases, this will
happen to work. Otherwise it will pass back the address of the first
string as the return value.

This patch lifts the len <= 0 handling code from memcpy to handle that
case.

Reported by: Christian_Sellars@symantec.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

powerpc: Add configurable -Werror for arch/powerpc

2009-06-16T04:15:45+00:00

Add the option to build the code under arch/powerpc with -Werror.

The intention is to make it harder for people to inadvertantly introduce
warnings in the arch/powerpc code. It needs to be configurable so that
if a warning is introduced, people can easily work around it while it's
being fixed.

The option is a negative, ie. don't enable -Werror, so that it will be
turned on for allyes and allmodconfig builds.

The default is n, in the hope that developers will build with -Werror,
that will probably lead to some build breaks, I am prepared to be flamed.

It's not enabled for math-emu, which is a steaming pile of warnings.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Move dma-noncoherent.c from arch/powerpc/lib to arch/powerpc/mm

2009-05-27T06:32:05+00:00

(pre-requisite to make the next patches more palatable)

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Revert "powerpc: Rework dma-noncoherent to use generic vmalloc layer"

2009-05-27T03:33:14+00:00

This reverts commit 33f00dcedb0e22cdb156a23632814fc580fcfcf8.

    While it was a good idea to try to use the mm/vmalloc.c allocator instead
    of our own (in fact, ours is itself a dup on an old variant of the vmalloc
    one), unfortunately, the approach is terminally busted since
    dma_alloc_coherent() can be called at interrupt time or in atomic contexts
    and there's little chances we'll make the code in mm/vmalloc.c cope with\       that :-(

    Until we can get the generic code to forbid that idiocy and fix all
    drivers abusing it, we pretty much have no choice but revert to
    our custom virtual space allocator.

    There's also a problem with SMP safety since freeing such mapping
    would require an IPI which cannot be done at interrupt time.

    However, right now, I don't think we support any platform that is
    both SMP and has non-coherent DMA (don't laugh, I know such things
    do exist !) so we can sort that out later.

    Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge commit 'origin/master' into next

2009-03-11T06:10:07+00:00

powerpc: Fix 64bit __copy_tofrom_user() regression

2009-02-26T03:02:54+00:00

This fixes a regression introduced by commit
a4e22f02f5b6518c1484faea1f88d81802b9feac ("powerpc: Update 64bit
__copy_tofrom_user() using CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD").

The same bug that existed in the 64bit memcpy() also exists here so fix
it here too. The fix is the same as that applied to memcpy() with the
addition of fixes for the exception handling code required for
__copy_tofrom_user().

This stops us reading beyond the end of the source region we were told
to copy.

Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Fix 64bit memcpy() regression

2009-02-26T03:02:53+00:00

This fixes a regression introduced by commit
25d6e2d7c58ddc4a3b614fc5381591c0cfe66556 ("powerpc: Update 64bit memcpy()
using CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD").

This commit allowed CPUs that have the CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD CPU
feature bit present to do the memcpy() with unaligned load doubles. But,
along with this came a bug where our final load double would read bytes
beyond a page boundary and into the next (unmapped) page. This was caught
by enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,

The fix was to read only the number of bytes that we need to store rather
than reading a full 8-byte doubleword and storing only a portion of that.

In order to minimise the amount of existing code touched we use the
original do_tail for the src_unaligned case.

Below is an example of the regression, as reported by Sachin Sant:

Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xc00000003f380000
Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000039574
cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000003baf3020]
    pc: c000000000039574: .memcpy+0x74/0x244
    lr: d00000000244916c: .ext3_xattr_get+0x288/0x2f4 [ext3]
    sp: c00000003baf32a0
   msr: 8000000000009032
   dar: c00000003f380000
 dsisr: 40000000
  current = 0xc00000003e54b010
  paca    = 0xc000000000a53680
    pid   = 1840, comm = readahead
enter ? for help
[link register   ] d00000000244916c .ext3_xattr_get+0x288/0x2f4 [ext3]
[c00000003baf32a0] d000000002449104 .ext3_xattr_get+0x220/0x2f4 [ext3]
(unreliab
le)
[c00000003baf3390] d00000000244a6e8 .ext3_xattr_security_get+0x40/0x5c [ext3]
[c00000003baf3400] c000000000148154 .generic_getxattr+0x74/0x9c
[c00000003baf34a0] c000000000333400 .inode_doinit_with_dentry+0x1c4/0x678
[c00000003baf3560] c00000000032c6b0 .security_d_instantiate+0x50/0x68
[c00000003baf35e0] c00000000013c818 .d_instantiate+0x78/0x9c
[c00000003baf3680] c00000000013ced0 .d_splice_alias+0xf0/0x120
[c00000003baf3720] d00000000243e05c .ext3_lookup+0xec/0x134 [ext3]
[c00000003baf37c0] c000000000131e74 .do_lookup+0x110/0x260
[c00000003baf3880] c000000000134ed0 .__link_path_walk+0xa98/0x1010
[c00000003baf3970] c0000000001354a0 .path_walk+0x58/0xc4
[c00000003baf3a20] c000000000135720 .do_path_lookup+0x138/0x1e4
[c00000003baf3ad0] c00000000013645c .path_lookup_open+0x6c/0xc8
[c00000003baf3b70] c000000000136780 .do_filp_open+0xcc/0x874
[c00000003baf3d10] c0000000001251e0 .do_sys_open+0x80/0x140
[c00000003baf3dc0] c00000000016aaec .compat_sys_open+0x24/0x38
[c00000003baf3e30] c00000000000855c syscall_exit+0x0/0x40

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Rework dma-noncoherent to use generic vmalloc layer

2009-02-22T23:48:57+00:00

This patch rewrites consistent dma allocations support to use vmalloc
layer to allocate virtual memory space from vmalloc pool and get rid
of CONFIG_CONSISTENT_{START,SIZE}.

This greatly simplifies the code by effectively removing a custom
allocator we had for virtual space.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Unify opcode definitions and support

2009-02-22T23:48:56+00:00

Create a new header that becomes a single location for defining PowerPC
opcodes used by code that is either generationg instructions
at runtime (fixups, debug, etc.), emulating instructions, or just
compiling instructions old assemblers don't know about.

We currently don't handle the floating point emulation or alignment decode
as both are better handled by the specific decode support they already
have.

Added support for the new dcbzl, dcbal, msgsnd, tlbilx, & wait instructions
since older assemblers don't know about them.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Don't emulate mr. instructions

2009-02-10T03:39:07+00:00

Currently emulate_step() emulates mr. instructions without updating cr0
and this can be disastrous. Don't emulate mr.

This bug has been around for a while, but I am not sure if its a worthy
-stable candidate. I'll leave it to Ben do decide.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt