linux-toradex.git/arch/xtensa/kernel/signal.c, branch v3.1.2

[XTENSA] Add support for the sa_restorer function

2008-02-14T01:42:31+00:00

Supporting the sa_restorer function allows for better security
since the sigreturn system call doesn't need to be placed on
the stack, so the stack doesn't need to be executable. This
requires support from the c-library as it has to provide the
restorer function.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel

[XTENSA] Add support for configurable registers and coprocessors

2008-02-14T01:41:43+00:00

The Xtensa architecture allows to define custom instructions and
registers. Registers that are bound to a coprocessor are only
accessible if the corresponding enable bit is set, which allows
to implement a 'lazy' context switch mechanism. Other registers
needs to be saved and restore at the time of the context switch
or during interrupt handling.

This patch adds support for these additional states:

- save and restore registers that are used by the compiler upon
  interrupt entry and exit.
- context switch additional registers unbound to any coprocessor
- 'lazy' context switch of registers bound to a coprocessor
- ptrace interface to provide access to additional registers
- update configuration files in include/asm-xtensa/variant-fsf

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel

[XTENSA] Remove oldmask from sigcontext and fix register flush

2008-02-14T01:12:15+00:00

Remove oldmask from the sigcontext structure. Also update wmask
and windowstart when we flush the AR registers to stack.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel

[XTENSA] Remove non-rt signal handling

2007-06-01T00:49:32+00:00

The non-rt signal handling was never really used, so we don't break
anything. This patch also cleans up the signal stack-frame to make
it independent from the processor configuration. It also improves
the method used for controlling single-stepping. We now save and
restore the 'icountlevel' register that controls single stepping
and set or clear the saved state to enable or disable it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel

header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used

2007-05-08T18:15:07+00:00

Remove includes of  where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] xtensa: fix system call interface

2006-12-10T17:55:39+00:00

This is a long outstanding patch to finally fix the syscall interface.  The
constants used for the system calls are those we have provided in our libc
patches.  This patch also fixes the shmbuf and stat structure, and fcntl
definitions.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] xtensa: remove extra header files

2006-12-10T17:55:39+00:00

The Xtensa port contained many header files that were never needed.  This
rather lengthy patch removes all those files.  Unfortunately, there were
many dependencies that needed to be updated, so this patch touches quite a
few source files.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fix incorrect SA_ONSTACK behaviour for 64-bit processes

2006-06-23T14:43:05+00:00

- When setting a sighandler using sigaction() call, if the flag
  SA_ONSTACK is set and no alternate stack is provided via sigaltstack(),
  the kernel still try to install the alternate stack.  This behavior is
  the opposite of the one which is documented in Single Unix Specifications
  V3.

- Also when setting an alternate stack using sigaltstack() with the flag
  SS_DISABLE, the kernel try to install the alternate stack on signal
  delivery.

These two use cases makes the process crash at signal delivery.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Meyer 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] xtensa: remove verify_area macros

2006-06-23T14:43:02+00:00

verify_area() is still alive on xtensa in 2.6.17-rc3-git13 It would be nice
to finally be rid of that function across the board.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] xtensa: remove io_remap_page_range and minor clean-ups

2005-09-23T05:17:37+00:00

Remove io_remap_page_range() from all of Linux 2.6.x (as requested and
suggested by Randy Dunlap) and minor clean-ups.

Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds