linux-toradex.git/arch/um/os-Linux/util.c, branch v3.6.5

um: -include user.h for USER_OBJ, trim includes

2011-11-02T13:14:44+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

um: add earlyprintk support

2011-05-25T15:39:41+00:00

User Mode Linux can also benefit from earlyprintk.  UML's earlyprintk
writes kernel messages directly to stdout.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

um: fix abort

2011-05-18T09:55:23+00:00

os_dump_core() uses abort() to terminate UML in case of an fatal error.

glibc's abort() calls raise(SIGABRT) which makes use of tgkill().
tgkill() has no effect within UML's kernel threads because they are not
pthreads.  As fallback abort() executes an invalid instruction to
terminate the process.  Therefore UML gets killed by SIGSEGV and leaves a
ugly log entry in the host's kernel ring buffer.

To get rid of this we use our own abort routine.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: style fixes in arch/um/os-Linux

2008-02-08T17:22:42+00:00

Style changes under arch/um/os-Linux:
	include trimming
	CodingStyle fixes
	some printks needed severity indicators

make_tempfile turns out not to be used outside of mem.c, so it is now static.
Its declaration in tempfile.h is no longer needed, and tempfile.h itself is no
longer needed.

create_tmp_file was also made static.

checkpatch moans about an EXPORT_SYMBOL in user_syms.c which is part of a
macro definition - this is copying a bit of kernel infrastructure into the
libc side of UML because the kernel headers can't be included there.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: eliminate setjmp_wrapper

2008-02-05T17:44:29+00:00

setjmp_wrapper existed to provide setjmp to kernel code when UML used libc's
setjmp and longjmp.  Now that UML has its own implementation, this isn't
needed and kernel code can invoke setjmp directly.

do_buffer_op is massively cleaned up since it is no longer a callback from
setjmp_wrapper and given a va_list from which it must extract its arguments.

The actual setjmp is moved from buffer_op to do_op_one_page because the copy
operation is inside an atomic section (kmap_atomic to kunmap_atomic) and it
shouldn't be longjmp-ed out of.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: stop gdb from deleting breakpoints when running UML

2007-12-18T03:28:15+00:00

Sometimes when UML is debugged gdb miss breakpoints.

When process traced by gdb do fork, debugger remove breakpoints from
child address space. There is possibility to trace more than one fork,
but this not work with UML, I guess (only guess) there is a deadlock -
gdb waits for UML and UML waits for gdb.

When clone() is called with SIGCHLD and CLONE_VM flags, gdb see this
as PTRACE_EVENT_FORK not as PTRACE_EVENT_CLONE and remove breakpoints
from child and at the same time from traced process, because either
have the same address space.

Maybe it is possible to do fix in gdb, but I'm not sure if there is
easy way to find out if traced and child processes share memory. So I
do fix for UML, it simply do not call clone() with both SIGCHLD and
CLONE_VM flags together.  Additionally __WALL flag is used for
waitpid() to assure not miss clone and normal process events.

[ jdike - checkpatch fixes ]

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: definitively kill subprocesses on panic

2007-10-16T16:43:09+00:00

In a stock 2.6.22.6 kernel, poweroff a user mode linux guest (2.6.22.6 running
in skas0 mode) will halt the host linux.  I think the reason is the kernel
thread abort because of a bug.  Then the sys_reboot in process of user mode
linux guest is not trapped by the user mode linux kernel and is executed by
host.  I think it is better to make sure all of our children process to quit
when user mode linux kernel abort.

[ jdike - the kernel process needs to ignore SIGTERM, plus the waitpid/kill
loop is needed to make sure that all of our children are dead before the
kernel exits ]

Signed-off-by: Lepton Wu 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: remove task_protections

2007-05-11T15:29:33+00:00

Replaced task_protections with stack_protections since they do the same
thing, and task_protections was misnamed anyway.

This needs THREAD_SIZE, so that's imported via common-offsets.h

Also tidied up the code in the vicinity.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: dump core on panic

2007-05-07T19:13:03+00:00

Dump core after a panic.  This will provide better debugging information than
is currently available.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: remove page_size()

2007-05-07T19:13:02+00:00

userspace code used to have to call the kernelspace function page_size() in
order to determine the value of the kernel's PAGE_SIZE.  Since this is now
available directly from kern_constants.h as UM_KERN_PAGE_SIZE, page_size() can
be deleted and calls changed to use the constant.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds