<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-toradex.git/include/asm-sparc, branch v2.6.19.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>[SPARC]: Fix robust futex syscalls and wire up migrate_pages.</title>
<updated>2006-11-06T00:51:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2006-11-06T00:51:03+00:00</published>
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When I added the entries for the robust futex syscall entries, I
forgot to bump NR_SYSCALLS.  The current situation is error-prone
because NR_SYSCALLS lives in entry.S where the system call limit
checks are enforced.  Move the definition to asm/unistd.h in order to
make this mistake much more difficult to make.

And wire up sys_migrate_pages since the powerpc folks implemented the
compat wrapper for us.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
When I added the entries for the robust futex syscall entries, I
forgot to bump NR_SYSCALLS.  The current situation is error-prone
because NR_SYSCALLS lives in entry.S where the system call limit
checks are enforced.  Move the definition to asm/unistd.h in order to
make this mistake much more difficult to make.

And wire up sys_migrate_pages since the powerpc folks implemented the
compat wrapper for us.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SPARC]: Clean up asm-sparc/elf.h pollution in userspace.</title>
<updated>2006-10-20T07:29:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw2@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-20T07:29:33+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
We don't need to export sparc_elf_hwcap() to userspace, and it doesn't
build there.  Remove it by moving it inside #ifdef __KERNEL__, along with
some other things which don't need to be exported.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
We don't need to export sparc_elf_hwcap() to userspace, and it doesn't
build there.  Remove it by moving it inside #ifdef __KERNEL__, along with
some other things which don't need to be exported.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>IRQ: Use the new typedef for interrupt handler function pointers</title>
<updated>2006-10-09T11:19:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-09T11:19:47+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Use the new typedef for interrupt handler function pointers rather than
actually spelling out the full thing each time.  This was scripted with the
following small shell script:

#!/bin/sh
egrep -nHrl -e 'irqreturn_t[ 	]*[(][*]' $* |
while read i
do
    echo $i
    perl -pi -e 's/irqreturn_t\s*[(]\s*[*]\s*([_a-zA-Z0-9]*)\s*[)]\s*[(]\s*int\s*,\s*void\s*[*]\s*[)]/irq_handler_t \1/g' $i || exit $?
done

Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
Use the new typedef for interrupt handler function pointers rather than
actually spelling out the full thing each time.  This was scripted with the
following small shell script:

#!/bin/sh
egrep -nHrl -e 'irqreturn_t[ 	]*[(][*]' $* |
while read i
do
    echo $i
    perl -pi -e 's/irqreturn_t\s*[(]\s*[*]\s*([_a-zA-Z0-9]*)\s*[)]\s*[(]\s*int\s*,\s*void\s*[*]\s*[)]/irq_handler_t \1/g' $i || exit $?
done

Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] sparc32 rwlock fix</title>
<updated>2006-10-08T19:32:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ftp.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-08T13:32:15+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
read_trylock() is broken on sparc32 (doesn't build and didn't work
right, actually).  Proposed fix:

 - make "writer holds lock" distinguishable from "reader tries to grab
   lock"

 - have __raw_read_trylock() try to acquire the mutex (in LSB of lock),
   terminating spin if we see that there's writer holding it.  Then do
   the rest as we do in read_lock().

Thanks to Ingo for discussion...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<pre>
read_trylock() is broken on sparc32 (doesn't build and didn't work
right, actually).  Proposed fix:

 - make "writer holds lock" distinguishable from "reader tries to grab
   lock"

 - have __raw_read_trylock() try to acquire the mutex (in LSB of lock),
   terminating spin if we see that there's writer holding it.  Then do
   the rest as we do in read_lock().

Thanks to Ingo for discussion...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] sparc32 pt_regs fixes</title>
<updated>2006-10-08T19:32:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ftp.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-08T13:30:44+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix file specification in comments</title>
<updated>2006-10-03T21:01:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Zeisberger</name>
<email>Uwe_Zeisberger@digi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-03T21:01:26+00:00</published>
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<id>f30c2269544bffc7bf1b0d7c0abe5be1be83b8cb</id>
<content type='text'>
Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger &lt;Uwe_Zeisberger@digi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger &lt;Uwe_Zeisberger@digi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] remove remaining errno and __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ references</title>
<updated>2006-10-02T14:57:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-02T09:18:44+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The last in-kernel user of errno is gone, so we should remove the definition
and everything referring to it.  This also removes the now-unused lib/execve.c
file that was introduced earlier.

Also remove every trace of __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ that still remained in the
kernel.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@muc.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ian Molton &lt;spyro@f2s.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata.hirokazu@renesas.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima &lt;kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp&gt;
Cc: Richard Curnow &lt;rc@rc0.org.uk&gt;
Cc: William Lee Irwin III &lt;wli@holomorphy.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Cc: Miles Bader &lt;uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Zippel &lt;zippel@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<pre>
The last in-kernel user of errno is gone, so we should remove the definition
and everything referring to it.  This also removes the now-unused lib/execve.c
file that was introduced earlier.

Also remove every trace of __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ that still remained in the
kernel.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@muc.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ian Molton &lt;spyro@f2s.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata.hirokazu@renesas.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima &lt;kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp&gt;
Cc: Richard Curnow &lt;rc@rc0.org.uk&gt;
Cc: William Lee Irwin III &lt;wli@holomorphy.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso &lt;blaisorblade@yahoo.it&gt;
Cc: Miles Bader &lt;uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Zippel &lt;zippel@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks</title>
<updated>2006-10-01T07:39:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-01T06:27:43+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
On systems running with virtual cpus there is optimization potential in
regard to spinlocks and rw-locks.  If the virtual cpu that has taken a lock
is known to a cpu that wants to acquire the same lock it is beneficial to
yield the timeslice of the virtual cpu in favour of the cpu that has the
lock (directed yield).

With CONFIG_PREEMPT="n" this can be implemented by the architecture without
common code changes.  Powerpc already does this.

With CONFIG_PREEMPT="y" the lock loops are coded with _raw_spin_trylock,
_raw_read_trylock and _raw_write_trylock in kernel/spinlock.c.  If the lock
could not be taken cpu_relax is called.  A directed yield is not possible
because cpu_relax doesn't know anything about the lock.  To be able to
yield the lock in favour of the current lock holder variants of cpu_relax
for spinlocks and rw-locks are needed.  The new _raw_spin_relax,
_raw_read_relax and _raw_write_relax primitives differ from cpu_relax
insofar that they have an argument: a pointer to the lock structure.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@atmel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
On systems running with virtual cpus there is optimization potential in
regard to spinlocks and rw-locks.  If the virtual cpu that has taken a lock
is known to a cpu that wants to acquire the same lock it is beneficial to
yield the timeslice of the virtual cpu in favour of the cpu that has the
lock (directed yield).

With CONFIG_PREEMPT="n" this can be implemented by the architecture without
common code changes.  Powerpc already does this.

With CONFIG_PREEMPT="y" the lock loops are coded with _raw_spin_trylock,
_raw_read_trylock and _raw_write_trylock in kernel/spinlock.c.  If the lock
could not be taken cpu_relax is called.  A directed yield is not possible
because cpu_relax doesn't know anything about the lock.  To be able to
yield the lock in favour of the current lock holder variants of cpu_relax
for spinlocks and rw-locks are needed.  The new _raw_spin_relax,
_raw_read_relax and _raw_write_relax primitives differ from cpu_relax
insofar that they have an argument: a pointer to the lock structure.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@atmel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] Standardize pxx_page macros</title>
<updated>2006-09-26T15:48:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave McCracken</name>
<email>dmccr@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-26T06:31:48+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
One of the changes necessary for shared page tables is to standardize the
pxx_page macros.  pte_page and pmd_page have always returned the struct
page associated with their entry, while pte_page_kernel and pmd_page_kernel
have returned the kernel virtual address.  pud_page and pgd_page, on the
other hand, return the kernel virtual address.

Shared page tables needs pud_page and pgd_page to return the actual page
structures.  There are very few actual users of these functions, so it is
simple to standardize their usage.

Since this is basic cleanup, I am submitting these changes as a standalone
patch.  Per Hugh Dickins' comments about it, I am also changing the
pxx_page_kernel macros to pxx_page_vaddr to clarify their meaning.

Signed-off-by: Dave McCracken &lt;dmccr@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
One of the changes necessary for shared page tables is to standardize the
pxx_page macros.  pte_page and pmd_page have always returned the struct
page associated with their entry, while pte_page_kernel and pmd_page_kernel
have returned the kernel virtual address.  pud_page and pgd_page, on the
other hand, return the kernel virtual address.

Shared page tables needs pud_page and pgd_page to return the actual page
structures.  There are very few actual users of these functions, so it is
simple to standardize their usage.

Since this is basic cleanup, I am submitting these changes as a standalone
patch.  Per Hugh Dickins' comments about it, I am also changing the
pxx_page_kernel macros to pxx_page_vaddr to clarify their meaning.

Signed-off-by: Dave McCracken &lt;dmccr@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[libata] No need for all those arch libata-portmap.h headers</title>
<updated>2006-09-25T19:33:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jeff@garzik.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-25T19:33:09+00:00</published>
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<id>a6d967a485c67ec8a1276261f39d81ace6a3e308</id>
<content type='text'>
They all contain the same thing.  Instead, have a single generic one in
include/asm-generic, and permit an arch to override as needed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
They all contain the same thing.  Instead, have a single generic one in
include/asm-generic, and permit an arch to override as needed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jeff@garzik.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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