linux-toradex.git/arch/s390/kernel/process.c, branch v3.9.2

flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()

2012-11-29T04:43:42+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

s390: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone

2012-11-29T03:44:37+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal

2012-10-10T03:02:25+00:00

Pull generic execve() changes from Al Viro:
 "This introduces the generic kernel_thread() and kernel_execve()
  functions, and switches x86, arm, alpha, um and s390 over to them."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (26 commits)
  s390: convert to generic kernel_execve()
  s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into ret_from_fork()
  s390: fold execve_tail() into start_thread(), convert to generic sys_execve()
  um: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  x86, um/x86: switch to generic sys_execve and kernel_execve
  x86: split ret_from_fork
  alpha: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
  alpha: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  alpha: switch to generic sys_execve()
  arm: get rid of execve wrapper, switch to generic execve() implementation
  arm: optimized current_pt_regs()
  arm: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
  arm: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() [based on patch by rmk]
  generic sys_execve()
  generic kernel_execve()
  new helper: current_pt_regs()
  preparation for generic kernel_thread()
  um: kill thread->forking
  um: let signal_delivered() do SIGTRAP on singlestepping into handler
  ...

s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()

2012-10-01T03:03:03+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into ret_from_fork()

2012-10-01T03:03:03+00:00

... and don't bother with syscall return path in case of kernel
threads.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

s390: fold execve_tail() into start_thread(), convert to generic sys_execve()

2012-10-01T03:03:02+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

s390/process: add missing header include

2012-09-26T13:45:22+00:00

Add appropriate header file:

arch/s390/kernel/process.c:327:15: warning: symbol 'arch_align_stack' was not declared.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390: add support for runtime instrumentation

2012-09-26T13:45:02+00:00

Allow user-space threads to use runtime instrumentation (RI). To enable RI
for a thread there is a new s390 specific system call, sys_s390_runtime_instr,
that takes as parameter a realtime signal number. If the RI facility is
available the system call sets up a control block for the calling thread with
the appropriate permissions for the thread to modify the control block.

The user-space thread can then use the store and modify RI instructions to
alter the control block and start/stop the instrumentation via RION/RIOFF.

If the user specified program buffer runs full RI triggers an external
interrupt. The external interrupt is translated to a real-time signal that
is delivered to the thread that enabled RI on that CPU. The number of
the real-time signal is the number specified in the RI system call. So,
user-space can select any available real-time signal number in case the
application itself uses real-time signals for other purposes.

The kernel saves the RI control blocks on task switch only if the running
thread was enabled for RI. Therefore, the performance impact on task switch
should be negligible if RI is not used.

RI is only enabled for user-space mode and is disabled for the supervisor
state.

Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/vtimer: rework virtual timer interface

2012-07-20T09:15:08+00:00

The current virtual timer interface is inherently per-cpu and hard to
use. The sole user of the interface is appldata which uses it to execute
a function after a specific amount of cputime has been used over all cpus.

Rework the virtual timer interface to hook into the cputime accounting.
This makes the interface independent from the CPU timer interrupts, and
makes the virtual timers global as opposed to per-cpu.
Overall the code is greatly simplified. The downside is that the accuracy
is not as good as the original implementation, but it is still good enough
for appldata.

Reviewed-by: Jan Glauber 
Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/comments: unify copyright messages and remove file names

2012-07-20T09:15:04+00:00

Remove the file name from the comment at top of many files. In most
cases the file name was wrong anyway, so it's rather pointless.

Also unify the IBM copyright statement. We did have a lot of sightly
different statements and wanted to change them one after another
whenever a file gets touched. However that never happened. Instead
people start to take the old/"wrong" statements to use as a template
for new files.
So unify all of them in one go.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens