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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/s390/kernel/vdso64, branch v3.9.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>s390: add various .gitignore files.</title>
<updated>2012-05-16T12:42:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2012-05-09T14:27:38+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>[S390] vdso: disable gcov profiling</title>
<updated>2011-05-23T08:24:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Oberparleiter</name>
<email>peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2011-05-23T08:24:31+00:00</published>
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The concepts of VDSO and gcov-based profiling don't mix: the former
includes kernel-provided code running in userspace, the latter adds
instructions that modify counters in kernel data segments. On s390
this has not been a problem so far due to VDSO code being written in
all-assembler which is exempt from gcov-based profiling. This could
change in the future, so disable profiling excplicitly for VDSO code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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The concepts of VDSO and gcov-based profiling don't mix: the former
includes kernel-provided code running in userspace, the latter adds
instructions that modify counters in kernel data segments. On s390
this has not been a problem so far due to VDSO code being written in
all-assembler which is exempt from gcov-based profiling. This could
change in the future, so disable profiling excplicitly for VDSO code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>[S390] vdso: get rid of redefinition warnings</title>
<updated>2010-10-29T14:50:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-29T14:50:41+00:00</published>
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The CLOCK_* defines in asm-offsets.c are only used for the vdso code
however in the meantime they cause other trouble.
Just rename them to get permanently rid of this:

In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/asm-offsets.h:1:0,
                 from arch/s390/mm/fault.c:33:
include/generated/asm-offsets.h:53:0: warning: "CLOCK_REALTIME" redefined
include/linux/time.h:286:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
include/generated/asm-offsets.h:54:0: warning: "CLOCK_MONOTONIC" redefined
include/linux/time.h:287:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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The CLOCK_* defines in asm-offsets.c are only used for the vdso code
however in the meantime they cause other trouble.
Just rename them to get permanently rid of this:

In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/asm-offsets.h:1:0,
                 from arch/s390/mm/fault.c:33:
include/generated/asm-offsets.h:53:0: warning: "CLOCK_REALTIME" redefined
include/linux/time.h:286:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
include/generated/asm-offsets.h:54:0: warning: "CLOCK_MONOTONIC" redefined
include/linux/time.h:287:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>[S390] vdso: use ntp adjusted clock multiplier</title>
<updated>2010-04-22T15:17:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hendrik Brueckner</name>
<email>brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-22T15:17:06+00:00</published>
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Commit "timekeeping: Fix clock_gettime vsyscall time warp" (0696b711e)
introduced the new parameter "mult" to update_vsyscall(). This parameter
contains the internal NTP adjusted clock multiplier.

The s390x vdso did not use this adjusted multiplier.  Instead, it used
the constant clock multiplier for gettimeofday() and clock_gettime()
variants.  This may result in observable time warps as explained in
commit 0696b711e.

Make the NTP adjusted clock multiplier available to the s390x vdso
implementation and use it for time calculations.

Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Commit "timekeeping: Fix clock_gettime vsyscall time warp" (0696b711e)
introduced the new parameter "mult" to update_vsyscall(). This parameter
contains the internal NTP adjusted clock multiplier.

The s390x vdso did not use this adjusted multiplier.  Instead, it used
the constant clock multiplier for gettimeofday() and clock_gettime()
variants.  This may result in observable time warps as explained in
commit 0696b711e.

Make the NTP adjusted clock multiplier available to the s390x vdso
implementation and use it for time calculations.

Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Use macros for .data.page_aligned section.</title>
<updated>2009-09-21T04:27:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Abbott</name>
<email>tabbott@ksplice.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-20T22:14:15+00:00</published>
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This patch changes the remaining direct references to
.data.page_aligned in C and assembly code to use the macros in
include/linux/linkage.h.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@ksplice.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@atmel.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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This patch changes the remaining direct references to
.data.page_aligned in C and assembly code to use the macros in
include/linux/linkage.h.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott &lt;tabbott@ksplice.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@atmel.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: rename ld-option to cc-ldoption</title>
<updated>2009-09-20T10:27:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-19T08:14:33+00:00</published>
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ld-option is misnamed as it test options to gcc, not to ld.
Renamed it to reflect this.

Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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ld-option is misnamed as it test options to gcc, not to ld.
Renamed it to reflect this.

Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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<title>[S390] vdso: clock_gettime of CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID with noexec=on</title>
<updated>2009-07-24T10:41:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-24T10:39:52+00:00</published>
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The combination of noexec=on and a clock_gettime call with clock id
CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID is broken. The vdso code switches to the
access register mode to get access to the per-cpu data structure to
execute the magic ectg instruction. After the ectg instruction the
code always switches back to the primary mode but for noexec=on the
correct mode is the secondary mode. The effect of the bug is that the
user space program looses the access to all mappings without PROT_EXEC,
e.g. the stack. The problem is fixed by restoring the mode that has
been active before the switch to the access register mode.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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The combination of noexec=on and a clock_gettime call with clock id
CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID is broken. The vdso code switches to the
access register mode to get access to the per-cpu data structure to
execute the magic ectg instruction. After the ectg instruction the
code always switches back to the primary mode but for noexec=on the
correct mode is the secondary mode. The effect of the bug is that the
user space program looses the access to all mappings without PROT_EXEC,
e.g. the stack. The problem is fixed by restoring the mode that has
been active before the switch to the access register mode.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] fast vdso implementation for CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID</title>
<updated>2008-12-31T14:11:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-31T14:11:42+00:00</published>
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The extract cpu time instruction (ectg) instruction allows the user
process to get the current thread cputime without calling into the
kernel. The code that uses the instruction needs to switch to the
access registers mode to get access to the per-cpu info page that
contains the two base values that are needed to calculate the current
cputime from the CPU timer with the ectg instruction.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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The extract cpu time instruction (ectg) instruction allows the user
process to get the current thread cputime without calling into the
kernel. The code that uses the instruction needs to switch to the
access registers mode to get access to the per-cpu info page that
contains the two base values that are needed to calculate the current
cputime from the CPU timer with the ectg instruction.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>[S390] introduce vdso on s390</title>
<updated>2008-12-25T12:38:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-25T12:38:36+00:00</published>
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Add a vdso to speed up gettimeofday and clock_getres/clock_gettime for
CLOCK_REALTIME/CLOCK_MONOTONIC.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Add a vdso to speed up gettimeofday and clock_getres/clock_gettime for
CLOCK_REALTIME/CLOCK_MONOTONIC.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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