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<title>Merge tag 'frv-fixes-20121102' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-frv</title>
<updated>2012-11-02T20:27:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2012-11-02T20:27:01+00:00</published>
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Pull FRV fixes from David Howells:
 "A collection of small fixes for the FRV architecture."

* tag 'frv-fixes-20121102' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-frv:
  frv: fix the broken preempt
  frv: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  FRV: Fix the new-style kernel_thread() stuff
  FRV: Fix the preemption handling
  FRV: gcc-4.1.2 also inlines weak functions
  FRV: Don't objcopy the GNU build_id note
  FRV: Add missing linux/export.h #inclusions
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Pull FRV fixes from David Howells:
 "A collection of small fixes for the FRV architecture."

* tag 'frv-fixes-20121102' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-frv:
  frv: fix the broken preempt
  frv: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
  FRV: Fix the new-style kernel_thread() stuff
  FRV: Fix the preemption handling
  FRV: gcc-4.1.2 also inlines weak functions
  FRV: Don't objcopy the GNU build_id note
  FRV: Add missing linux/export.h #inclusions
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-rc4-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen</title>
<updated>2012-11-02T20:26:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2012-11-02T20:26:11+00:00</published>
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Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 - Use appropriate macros instead of hand-rolling our own (ARM).
 - Fixes if FB/KBD closed unexpectedly.
 - Fix memory leak in /dev/gntdev ioctl calls.
 - Fix overflow check in xenbus_file_write.
 - Document cleanup.
 - Performance optimization when migrating guests.

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-rc4-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/mmu: Use Xen specific TLB flush instead of the generic one.
  xen/arm: use the __HVC macro
  xen/xenbus: fix overflow check in xenbus_file_write()
  xen-kbdfront: handle backend CLOSED without CLOSING
  xen-fbfront: handle backend CLOSED without CLOSING
  xen/gntdev: don't leak memory from IOCTL_GNTDEV_MAP_GRANT_REF
  x86: remove obsolete comment from asm/xen/hypervisor.h
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Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 - Use appropriate macros instead of hand-rolling our own (ARM).
 - Fixes if FB/KBD closed unexpectedly.
 - Fix memory leak in /dev/gntdev ioctl calls.
 - Fix overflow check in xenbus_file_write.
 - Document cleanup.
 - Performance optimization when migrating guests.

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-rc4-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/mmu: Use Xen specific TLB flush instead of the generic one.
  xen/arm: use the __HVC macro
  xen/xenbus: fix overflow check in xenbus_file_write()
  xen-kbdfront: handle backend CLOSED without CLOSING
  xen-fbfront: handle backend CLOSED without CLOSING
  xen/gntdev: don't leak memory from IOCTL_GNTDEV_MAP_GRANT_REF
  x86: remove obsolete comment from asm/xen/hypervisor.h
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<title>frv: fix the broken preempt</title>
<updated>2012-11-02T16:08:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2012-11-02T16:05:44+00:00</published>
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Just get %icc2 into the state we would have after local_irq_disable()
and physical IRQ having happened since then.  Then we can simply
use preempt_schedule_irq() and be done with the whole mess.

Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Just get %icc2 into the state we would have after local_irq_disable()
and physical IRQ having happened since then.  Then we can simply
use preempt_schedule_irq() and be done with the whole mess.

Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>frv: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics</title>
<updated>2012-11-02T16:05:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2012-10-15T14:53:17+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>FRV: Fix the new-style kernel_thread() stuff</title>
<updated>2012-11-02T13:20:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2012-11-02T13:20:43+00:00</published>
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The kernel_thread() changes for FRV don't work, and FRV fails to boot,
starting with:

	commit 02ce496f152df87be081a64796498942c433a2fd
	Author: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
	Date:   Tue Sep 18 22:18:51 2012 -0400
	Subject: frv: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() a lot

The problem is that the userspace registers are completely cleared when a
kernel thread is created and all subsequent user threads are then copied from
that.  Unfortunately, however, the TBR and PSR registers are restored from the
pt_regs and the values they should be set to are clobbered by the memset.

Instead, copy across the old user registers as normal, and then merely alter
GR8 and GR9 in it if we're going to execute a kernel thread.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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The kernel_thread() changes for FRV don't work, and FRV fails to boot,
starting with:

	commit 02ce496f152df87be081a64796498942c433a2fd
	Author: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
	Date:   Tue Sep 18 22:18:51 2012 -0400
	Subject: frv: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() a lot

The problem is that the userspace registers are completely cleared when a
kernel thread is created and all subsequent user threads are then copied from
that.  Unfortunately, however, the TBR and PSR registers are restored from the
pt_regs and the values they should be set to are clobbered by the memset.

Instead, copy across the old user registers as normal, and then merely alter
GR8 and GR9 in it if we're going to execute a kernel thread.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>FRV: Fix the preemption handling</title>
<updated>2012-11-02T13:20:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-02T13:20:42+00:00</published>
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Fix the preemption handling in FRV code where the PREEMPT_ACTIVE value is
incorrectly loaded into the threadinfo flags rather than the threadinfo
preemption count.

Unfortunately, the code cannot be simply converted to use
preempt_schedule_irq() as is because FRV uses virtual interrupt disablement to
cut down on the cost of actually disabling interrupts and thus
local_irq_enable() doesn't actually enable interrupts.

Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Fix the preemption handling in FRV code where the PREEMPT_ACTIVE value is
incorrectly loaded into the threadinfo flags rather than the threadinfo
preemption count.

Unfortunately, the code cannot be simply converted to use
preempt_schedule_irq() as is because FRV uses virtual interrupt disablement to
cut down on the cost of actually disabling interrupts and thus
local_irq_enable() doesn't actually enable interrupts.

Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>FRV: Don't objcopy the GNU build_id note</title>
<updated>2012-11-02T13:20:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-02T13:20:42+00:00</published>
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Don't let objcopy transfer the GNU build_id note into the loadable image as it
is located at address 0 and the image ends up &gt;3G in size.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Don't let objcopy transfer the GNU build_id note into the loadable image as it
is located at address 0 and the image ends up &gt;3G in size.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>FRV: Add missing linux/export.h #inclusions</title>
<updated>2012-11-02T13:20:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-02T13:20:42+00:00</published>
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Add missing linux/export.h #inclusions to the FRV arch.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Add missing linux/export.h #inclusions to the FRV arch.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'xtensa-next-20121101' of git://github.com/czankel/xtensa-linux</title>
<updated>2012-11-02T00:48:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-02T00:48:19+00:00</published>
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Pull Xtensa fixes from Chris Zankel:
 "Some important bug fixes.

  With the change to uapi, there was a bug introduced that results in an
  empty syscall table (mult-inclusion bug).  Switching to the generic
  thread/execve allowed us to fix a bug we had in vfork()."

* tag 'xtensa-next-20121101' of git://github.com/czankel/xtensa-linux:
  xtensa: switch to generic sys_execve()
  xtensa: switch to generic kernel_execve()
  xtensa: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  xtensa: reset windowbase/windowstart when cloning the VM
  xtensa: use physical addresses for bus addresses
  xtensa: allow multi-inclusion for uapi/unistd.h
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Pull Xtensa fixes from Chris Zankel:
 "Some important bug fixes.

  With the change to uapi, there was a bug introduced that results in an
  empty syscall table (mult-inclusion bug).  Switching to the generic
  thread/execve allowed us to fix a bug we had in vfork()."

* tag 'xtensa-next-20121101' of git://github.com/czankel/xtensa-linux:
  xtensa: switch to generic sys_execve()
  xtensa: switch to generic kernel_execve()
  xtensa: switch to generic kernel_thread()
  xtensa: reset windowbase/windowstart when cloning the VM
  xtensa: use physical addresses for bus addresses
  xtensa: allow multi-inclusion for uapi/unistd.h
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<title>KVM: x86: fix vcpu-&gt;mmio_fragments overflow</title>
<updated>2012-10-31T22:36:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiao Guangrong</name>
<email>xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-24T06:07:59+00:00</published>
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After commit b3356bf0dbb349 (KVM: emulator: optimize "rep ins" handling),
the pieces of io data can be collected and write them to the guest memory
or MMIO together

Unfortunately, kvm splits the mmio access into 8 bytes and store them to
vcpu-&gt;mmio_fragments. If the guest uses "rep ins" to move large data, it
will cause vcpu-&gt;mmio_fragments overflow

The bug can be exposed by isapc (-M isapc):

[23154.818733] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[ ......]
[23154.858083] Call Trace:
[23154.859874]  [&lt;ffffffffa04f0e17&gt;] kvm_get_cr8+0x1d/0x28 [kvm]
[23154.861677]  [&lt;ffffffffa04fa6d4&gt;] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xcda/0xe45 [kvm]
[23154.863604]  [&lt;ffffffffa04f5a1a&gt;] ? kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0x17b/0x180 [kvm]

Actually, we can use one mmio_fragment to store a large mmio access then
split it when we pass the mmio-exit-info to userspace. After that, we only
need two entries to store mmio info for the cross-mmio pages access

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
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After commit b3356bf0dbb349 (KVM: emulator: optimize "rep ins" handling),
the pieces of io data can be collected and write them to the guest memory
or MMIO together

Unfortunately, kvm splits the mmio access into 8 bytes and store them to
vcpu-&gt;mmio_fragments. If the guest uses "rep ins" to move large data, it
will cause vcpu-&gt;mmio_fragments overflow

The bug can be exposed by isapc (-M isapc):

[23154.818733] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[ ......]
[23154.858083] Call Trace:
[23154.859874]  [&lt;ffffffffa04f0e17&gt;] kvm_get_cr8+0x1d/0x28 [kvm]
[23154.861677]  [&lt;ffffffffa04fa6d4&gt;] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xcda/0xe45 [kvm]
[23154.863604]  [&lt;ffffffffa04f5a1a&gt;] ? kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0x17b/0x180 [kvm]

Actually, we can use one mmio_fragment to store a large mmio access then
split it when we pass the mmio-exit-info to userspace. After that, we only
need two entries to store mmio info for the cross-mmio pages access

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
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