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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/um, branch v3.4.78</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>x86, um: Correct syscall table type attributes breaking gcc 4.8</title>
<updated>2013-06-07T19:49:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Pelikan</name>
<email>pelikan@storkhole.cz</email>
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<published>2012-06-09T19:22:11+00:00</published>
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commit 9271b0b4b2044c6db06051fe60bc58cdd4f17c7c upstream.

The latest GCC 4.8 does some more checking on type attributes that
break the build for ARCH=um -&gt; fill them in.  Specifically, the
"asmlinkage" attributes is now tested for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Martin Pelikan &lt;pelikan@storkhole.cz&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339269731-10772-1-git-send-email-pelikan@storkhole.cz
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Bernhard M. Wiedemann &lt;bwiedemann@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9271b0b4b2044c6db06051fe60bc58cdd4f17c7c upstream.

The latest GCC 4.8 does some more checking on type attributes that
break the build for ARCH=um -&gt; fill them in.  Specifically, the
"asmlinkage" attributes is now tested for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Martin Pelikan &lt;pelikan@storkhole.cz&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339269731-10772-1-git-send-email-pelikan@storkhole.cz
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Bernhard M. Wiedemann &lt;bwiedemann@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>um: Use asm-generic/switch_to.h</title>
<updated>2012-04-09T22:13:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-29T17:10:42+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<entry>
<title>um: Disintegrate asm/system.h</title>
<updated>2012-04-09T22:13:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-29T16:47:46+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Reported-by: Toralf Förster &lt;toralf.foerster@gmx.de&gt;
CC: dhowells@redhat.com
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Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Reported-by: Toralf Förster &lt;toralf.foerster@gmx.de&gt;
CC: dhowells@redhat.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-03-30T01:12:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-30T01:12:23+00:00</published>
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Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86:
  32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel
  syscalls.

  This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address
  space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address
  space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc."

Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c}

* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
  x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
  x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format
  x32: Add ptrace for x32
  x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t
  x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates
  x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls
  x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect
  x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old
  x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once
  x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks
  fs: Remove missed -&gt;fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally
  fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable
  x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO
  x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code
  x32: Add x32 VDSO support
  x32: Allow x32 to be configured
  x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables
  x32: Handle process creation
  x32: Signal-related system calls
  x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to &lt;asm/sys_ia32.h&gt;
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Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86:
  32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel
  syscalls.

  This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address
  space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address
  space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc."

Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c}

* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits)
  x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo
  x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format
  x32: Add ptrace for x32
  x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t
  x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates
  x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls
  x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect
  x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old
  x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once
  x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks
  fs: Remove missed -&gt;fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally
  fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable
  x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO
  x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code
  x32: Add x32 VDSO support
  x32: Allow x32 to be configured
  x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables
  x32: Handle process creation
  x32: Signal-related system calls
  x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to &lt;asm/sys_ia32.h&gt;
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus-3.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml</title>
<updated>2012-03-28T01:29:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T01:29:53+00:00</published>
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Pull UML changes from Richard Weinberger:
 "Mostly bug fixes and cleanups"

* 'for-linus-3.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml: (35 commits)
  um: Update defconfig
  um: Switch to large mcmodel on x86_64
  MTD: Relax dependencies
  um: Wire CONFIG_GENERIC_IO up
  um: Serve io_remap_pfn_range()
  Introduce CONFIG_GENERIC_IO
  um: allow SUBARCH=x86
  um: most of the SUBARCH uses can be killed
  um: deadlock in line_write_interrupt()
  um: don't bother trying to rebuild CHECKFLAGS for USER_OBJS
  um: use the right ifdef around exports in user_syms.c
  um: a bunch of headers can be killed by using generic-y
  um: ptrace-generic.h doesn't need user.h
  um: kill HOST_TASK_PID
  um: remove pointless include of asm/fixmap.h from asm/pgtable.h
  um: asm-offsets.h might as well come from underlying arch...
  um: merge processor_{32,64}.h a bit...
  um: switch close_chan() to struct line
  um: race fix: initialize delayed_work *before* registering IRQ
  um: line-&gt;have_irq is never checked...
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Pull UML changes from Richard Weinberger:
 "Mostly bug fixes and cleanups"

* 'for-linus-3.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml: (35 commits)
  um: Update defconfig
  um: Switch to large mcmodel on x86_64
  MTD: Relax dependencies
  um: Wire CONFIG_GENERIC_IO up
  um: Serve io_remap_pfn_range()
  Introduce CONFIG_GENERIC_IO
  um: allow SUBARCH=x86
  um: most of the SUBARCH uses can be killed
  um: deadlock in line_write_interrupt()
  um: don't bother trying to rebuild CHECKFLAGS for USER_OBJS
  um: use the right ifdef around exports in user_syms.c
  um: a bunch of headers can be killed by using generic-y
  um: ptrace-generic.h doesn't need user.h
  um: kill HOST_TASK_PID
  um: remove pointless include of asm/fixmap.h from asm/pgtable.h
  um: asm-offsets.h might as well come from underlying arch...
  um: merge processor_{32,64}.h a bit...
  um: switch close_chan() to struct line
  um: race fix: initialize delayed_work *before* registering IRQ
  um: line-&gt;have_irq is never checked...
  ...
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<entry>
<title>um: allow SUBARCH=x86</title>
<updated>2012-03-24T23:29:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-11T11:15:50+00:00</published>
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nicked from patch by dwmw2 back in July

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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nicked from patch by dwmw2 back in July

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>um: kill HOST_TASK_PID</title>
<updated>2012-03-24T23:29:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-30T21:30:48+00:00</published>
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just provide get_current_pid() to the userland side of things
instead of get_current() + manual poking in its results

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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just provide get_current_pid() to the userland side of things
instead of get_current() + manual poking in its results

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>um: merge processor_{32,64}.h a bit...</title>
<updated>2012-03-24T23:29:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-20T22:23:39+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag</title>
<updated>2012-03-23T23:58:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Baron</name>
<email>jbaron@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-23T22:02:51+00:00</published>
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The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a
qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which
can be quite large.  There are already a number of filter flags in
/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types'
of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this
case).

Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates
the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag.  The flag is used internally by
the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages.  However, it is simple
enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need
for this flag.

The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new
'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags:
'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'.  The core dump filters
continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the
region.

The qemu code which implements this features is at:

  http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch

In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -&gt; 13MB with this
patch.

I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for
security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are
dumped.

This patch:

The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to
indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section.  However, we
can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against
the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from
arch_vma_name().  Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@hack.frob.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a
qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which
can be quite large.  There are already a number of filter flags in
/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types'
of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this
case).

Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates
the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag.  The flag is used internally by
the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages.  However, it is simple
enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need
for this flag.

The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new
'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags:
'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'.  The core dump filters
continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the
region.

The qemu code which implements this features is at:

  http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch

In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -&gt; 13MB with this
patch.

I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for
security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are
dumped.

This patch:

The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to
indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section.  However, we
can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against
the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from
arch_vma_name().  Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@hack.frob.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x32: Add x32 system calls to syscall/syscall_64.tbl</title>
<updated>2012-02-20T20:48:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-14T22:18:50+00:00</published>
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Split the 64-bit system calls into "64" (64-bit only) and "common"
(64-bit or x32) and add the x32 system call numbers.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Split the 64-bit system calls into "64" (64-bit only) and "common"
(64-bit or x32) and add the x32 system call numbers.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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