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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>[IA64] fix ia64 is_hugepage_only_range</title>
<updated>2007-10-28T20:40:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ken Chen</name>
<email>kenneth.w.chen@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-28T20:40:41+00:00</published>
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fix is_hugepage_only_range() definition to be "overlaps"
instead of "within architectural restricted hugetlb address
range".  Simplify the ia64 specific code that used to use
is_hugepage_only_range() to just check which region the
address is in.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen &lt;kenneth.w.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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fix is_hugepage_only_range() definition to be "overlaps"
instead of "within architectural restricted hugetlb address
range".  Simplify the ia64 specific code that used to use
is_hugepage_only_range() to just check which region the
address is in.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen &lt;kenneth.w.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>x86: HUGETLBFS and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC are incompatible</title>
<updated>2007-10-18T23:59:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ken Chen</name>
<email>kenneth.w.chen@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-18T23:59:17+00:00</published>
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DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is not compatible with hugetlb page support.  That debug
option turns off PSE.  Once it is turned off in CR4, the cpu will ignore
pse bit in the pmd and causing infinite page-not- present faults.

So disable DEBUG_PAGEALLOC if the user selected hugetlbfs.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen &lt;kenneth.w.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is not compatible with hugetlb page support.  That debug
option turns off PSE.  Once it is turned off in CR4, the cpu will ignore
pse bit in the pmd and causing infinite page-not- present faults.

So disable DEBUG_PAGEALLOC if the user selected hugetlbfs.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen &lt;kenneth.w.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[IA64] lazy_mmu_prot_update needs to be aware of huge pages</title>
<updated>2007-10-18T23:52:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Yanmin</name>
<email>yanmin.zhang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-18T23:52:21+00:00</published>
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Function lazy_mmu_prot_update is also used on huge pages when it is called
by set_huge_ptep_writable, but it isn't aware of huge pages.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin &lt;yanmin.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ken Chen &lt;kenneth.w.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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Function lazy_mmu_prot_update is also used on huge pages when it is called
by set_huge_ptep_writable, but it isn't aware of huge pages.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin &lt;yanmin.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ken Chen &lt;kenneth.w.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>make UML compile (FC6/x86-64)</title>
<updated>2007-10-18T21:46:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ulrich Drepper</name>
<email>drepper@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-18T21:46:58+00:00</published>
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I need this patch to get a UML kernel to compile.  This is with the
kernel headers in FC6 which are automatically generated from the kernel
tree.  Some headers are missing but those files don't need them.  At
least it appears so since the resuling kernel works fine.

Tested on x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper &lt;drepper@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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I need this patch to get a UML kernel to compile.  This is with the
kernel headers in FC6 which are automatically generated from the kernel
tree.  Some headers are missing but those files don't need them.  At
least it appears so since the resuling kernel works fine.

Tested on x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper &lt;drepper@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[SPARC64]: Fix bugs in SYSV IPC handling in 64-bit processes.</title>
<updated>2007-10-18T16:48:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-18T16:48:42+00:00</published>
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Thanks to Tom Callaway for the excellent bug report and
test case.

sys_ipc() has several problems, most to due with semaphore
call handling:

1) 'err' return should be a 'long'
2) "union semun" is passed in a register on 64-bit compared
   to 32-bit which provides it on the stack and therefore
   by reference
3) Second and third arguments to SEMCTL are swapped compared
   to 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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Thanks to Tom Callaway for the excellent bug report and
test case.

sys_ipc() has several problems, most to due with semaphore
call handling:

1) 'err' return should be a 'long'
2) "union semun" is passed in a register on 64-bit compared
   to 32-bit which provides it on the stack and therefore
   by reference
3) Second and third arguments to SEMCTL are swapped compared
   to 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Fix handling of stfiwx math emulation</title>
<updated>2007-10-18T16:00:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-18T16:00:21+00:00</published>
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Its legal for the stfiwx instruction to have RA = 0 as part of its
effective address calculation.  This is illegal for all other XE
form instructions.

Add code to compute the proper effective address for stfiwx if
RA = 0 rather than treating it as illegal.

Adrian Bunk:
Backported to 2.6.16.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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Its legal for the stfiwx instruction to have RA = 0 as part of its
effective address calculation.  This is illegal for all other XE
form instructions.

Add code to compute the proper effective address for stfiwx if
RA = 0 rather than treating it as illegal.

Adrian Bunk:
Backported to 2.6.16.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Flush registers to proper task context</title>
<updated>2007-10-06T21:36:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-06T21:36:26+00:00</published>
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When we flush register state for FP, Altivec, or SPE in flush_*_to_thread
we need to respect the task_struct that the caller has passed to us.

Most cases we are called with current, however sometimes (ptrace) we may
be passed a different task_struct.

This showed up when using gdbserver debugging a simple program that used
floating point. When gdb tried to show the FP regs they all showed up as 0,
because the child's FP registers were never properly flushed to memory.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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When we flush register state for FP, Altivec, or SPE in flush_*_to_thread
we need to respect the task_struct that the caller has passed to us.

Most cases we are called with current, however sometimes (ptrace) we may
be passed a different task_struct.

This showed up when using gdbserver debugging a simple program that used
floating point. When gdb tried to show the FP regs they all showed up as 0,
because the child's FP registers were never properly flushed to memory.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86_64: Zero extend all registers after ptrace in 32bit entry path (CVE-2007-4573)</title>
<updated>2007-10-06T21:32:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-06T21:32:18+00:00</published>
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Strictly it's only needed for eax.

It actually does a little more than strictly needed -- the other registers
are already zero extended.

Also remove the now unnecessary and non functional compat task check
in ptrace.

Found by Wojciech Purczynski

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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Strictly it's only needed for eax.

It actually does a little more than strictly needed -- the other registers
are already zero extended.

Also remove the now unnecessary and non functional compat task check
in ptrace.

Found by Wojciech Purczynski

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SPARC32]: Fix rounding errors in ndelay/udelay implementation.</title>
<updated>2007-08-30T04:07:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Fortescue</name>
<email>mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-30T04:07:11+00:00</published>
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__ndelay and __udelay have not been delayung &gt;= specified time.
The problem with __ndelay has been tacked down to the rounding of the
multiplier constant. By changing this, delays &gt; app 18us are correctly
calculated.
The problem with __udelay has also been tracked down to rounding issues.
Changing the multiplier constant (to match that used in sparc64) corrects
for large delays and adding in a rounding constant corrects for trunctaion
errors in the claculations.
Many short delays will return without looping. This is not an error as there
is the fixed delay of doing all the maths to calculate the loop count.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue &lt;mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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__ndelay and __udelay have not been delayung &gt;= specified time.
The problem with __ndelay has been tacked down to the rounding of the
multiplier constant. By changing this, delays &gt; app 18us are correctly
calculated.
The problem with __udelay has also been tracked down to rounding issues.
Changing the multiplier constant (to match that used in sparc64) corrects
for large delays and adding in a rounding constant corrects for trunctaion
errors in the claculations.
Many short delays will return without looping. This is not an error as there
is the fixed delay of doing all the maths to calculate the loop count.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue &lt;mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[SPARC32]: Fix bug in sparc optimized memset.</title>
<updated>2007-08-30T04:05:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Shmelev</name>
<email>ashmelev@task.sun.mcst.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2007-08-30T04:05:29+00:00</published>
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Sparc optimized memset (arch/sparc/lib/memset.S) does not fill last
byte of the memory area, if area size is less than 8 bytes and start
address is not word (4-bytes) aligned.

Here is code chunk where bug located:
/* %o0 - memory address, %o1 - size, %g3 - value */
8:
     add    %o0, 1, %o0
    subcc    %o1, 1, %o1
    bne,a    8b
     stb %g3, [%o0 - 1]

This code should write byte every loop iteration, but last time delay
instruction stb is not executed because branch instruction sets
"annul" bit.

Patch replaces bne,a by bne instruction.

Error can be reproduced by simple kernel module:

--------------------
#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/config.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/errno.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;

static void do_memset(void **p, int size)
{
        memset(p, 0x00, size);
}

static int __init memset_test_init(void)
{
    char fooc[8];
    int *fooi;
    memset(fooc, 0xba, sizeof(fooc));

    do_memset((void**)(fooc + 3), 1);

    fooi = (int*) fooc;
    printk("%08X %08X\n", fooi[0], fooi[1]);

    return -1;
}

static void __exit memset_test_cleanup(void)
{
    return;
}

module_init(memset_test_init);
module_exit(memset_test_cleanup);

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS;
--------------------

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shmelev &lt;ashmelev@task.sun.mcst.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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Sparc optimized memset (arch/sparc/lib/memset.S) does not fill last
byte of the memory area, if area size is less than 8 bytes and start
address is not word (4-bytes) aligned.

Here is code chunk where bug located:
/* %o0 - memory address, %o1 - size, %g3 - value */
8:
     add    %o0, 1, %o0
    subcc    %o1, 1, %o1
    bne,a    8b
     stb %g3, [%o0 - 1]

This code should write byte every loop iteration, but last time delay
instruction stb is not executed because branch instruction sets
"annul" bit.

Patch replaces bne,a by bne instruction.

Error can be reproduced by simple kernel module:

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#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/config.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt;
#include &lt;linux/errno.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;

static void do_memset(void **p, int size)
{
        memset(p, 0x00, size);
}

static int __init memset_test_init(void)
{
    char fooc[8];
    int *fooi;
    memset(fooc, 0xba, sizeof(fooc));

    do_memset((void**)(fooc + 3), 1);

    fooi = (int*) fooc;
    printk("%08X %08X\n", fooi[0], fooi[1]);

    return -1;
}

static void __exit memset_test_cleanup(void)
{
    return;
}

module_init(memset_test_init);
module_exit(memset_test_cleanup);

MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS;
--------------------

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shmelev &lt;ashmelev@task.sun.mcst.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
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