linux-toradex.git/arch/tile, branch v3.18.10

vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support

2015-02-06T06:36:01+00:00

commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai 
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2014-10-15T05:48:18+00:00

Pull percpu consistent-ops changes from Tejun Heo:
"Way back, before the current percpu allocator was implemented, static
and dynamic percpu memory areas were allocated and handled separately
and had their own accessors. The distinction has been gone for many
years now; however, the now duplicate two sets of accessors remained
with the pointer based ones - this_cpu_*() - evolving various other
operations over time. During the process, we also accumulated other
inconsistent operations.

This pull request contains Christoph's patches to clean up the
duplicate accessor situation. __get_cpu_var() uses are replaced with
with this_cpu_ptr() and __this_cpu_ptr() with raw_cpu_ptr().

Unfortunately, the former sometimes is tricky thanks to C being a bit
messy with the distinction between lvalues and pointers, which led to
a rather ugly solution for cpumask_var_t involving the introduction of
this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr().

This converts most of the uses but not all. Christoph will follow up
with the remaining conversions in this merge window and hopefully
remove the obsolete accessors"

* 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (38 commits)
irqchip: Properly fetch the per cpu offset
percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix
ia64: sn_nodepda cannot be assigned to after this_cpu conversion. Use __this_cpu_write.
percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t
Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses"
percpu: Remove __this_cpu_ptr
clocksource: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
sparc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
avr32: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_write
blackfin: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
tile: Use this_cpu_ptr() for hardware counters
tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var
ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
s390: cio driver &__get_cpu_var replacements
s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
MIPS: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in FPU emulator.
arm: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
...

Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-10-09T10:30:57+00:00

Pull timer fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes:

  - Fix the deadlock reported by Dave Jones et al
  - Clean up and fix nohz_full interaction with arch abilities
  - nohz init code consolidation/cleanup"

* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  nohz: nohz full depends on irq work self IPI support
  nohz: Consolidate nohz full init code
  arm64: Tell irq work about self IPI support
  arm: Tell irq work about self IPI support
  x86: Tell irq work about self IPI support
  irq_work: Force raised irq work to run on irq work interrupt
  irq_work: Introduce arch_irq_work_has_interrupt()
  nohz: Move nohz full init call to tick init

tile: add clock_gettime support to vDSO

2014-10-02T17:56:07+00:00

This change adds support for clock_gettime with CLOCK_REALTIME
and CLOCK_MONOTONIC using vDSO.  It also updates the vdso
struct nomenclature used for the clocks to match the x86 code
to keep it easier to update going forward.

We also support the *_COARSE clockid_t, for apps that want speed
but aren't concerned about fine-grained timestamps; this saves
about 20 cycles per call (see http://lwn.net/Articles/342018/).

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf 
Acked-by: John Stultz

tile: switch to using seqlocks for the vDSO time code

2014-10-02T14:48:12+00:00

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

tile gxio: use better string copy primitive

2014-10-02T14:19:34+00:00

Both strncpy and strlcpy suffer from the fact that they do
partial copies of strings into the destination when the target
buffer is too small.  This is frequently pointless since an
overflow of the target buffer may make the result invalid.

strncpy() makes it relatively hard to even detect the error
condition, and with strlcpy() you have to duplicate the buffer
size parameter to test to see if the result exceeds it.
By returning zero in the failure case, we both make testing
for it easy, and by simply not copying anything in that case,
we make it mandatory for callers to test the error code.

To catch lazy programmers who don't check, we also place a NUL at
the start of the destination buffer (if there is space) to
ensure that the result is an invalid string.

At some point it may make sense to promote strscpy() to
a global platform-independent function, but other than the
reviewers, no one was interested on LKML, so for now leave
the strscpy() function as file-static.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap 
Reviewed-by: Rickard Strandqvist 
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

Removed repeated word in comments

2014-10-02T14:19:34+00:00

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

tilegx: Enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW

2014-10-02T14:19:33+00:00

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

tile: Remove tile-specific _sinitdata and _einitdata

2014-10-02T14:19:33+00:00

Use standard __init_begin and __init_end instead.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

tile: use ARRAY_SIZE

2014-10-02T14:19:32+00:00

ARRAY_SIZE is more concise to use when the size of an array is divided
by the size of its type or the size of its first element.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:

// 
@i@
@@

@@
type T;
T[] E;
@@

- (sizeof(E)/sizeof(T))
+ ARRAY_SIZE(E)
// 

Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi 
Acked-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf