linux-toradex.git/kernel/compat.c, branch v3.0-rc3

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile

2011-05-25T22:35:32+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile: (26 commits)
  arch/tile: prefer "tilepro" as the name of the 32-bit architecture
  compat: include aio_abi.h for aio_context_t
  arch/tile: cleanups for tilegx compat mode
  arch/tile: allocate PCI IRQs later in boot
  arch/tile: support signal "exception-trace" hook
  arch/tile: use better definitions of xchg() and cmpxchg()
  include/linux/compat.h: coding-style fixes
  tile: add an RTC driver for the Tilera hypervisor
  arch/tile: finish enabling support for TILE-Gx 64-bit chip
  compat: fixes to allow working with tile arch
  arch/tile: update defconfig file to something more useful
  tile: do_hardwall_trap: do not play with task->sighand
  tile: replace mm->cpu_vm_mask with mm_cpumask()
  tile,mn10300: add device parameter to dma_cache_sync()
  audit: support the "standard" 
  arch/tile: clarify flush_buffer()/finv_buffer() function names
  arch/tile: kernel-related cleanups from removing static page size
  arch/tile: various header improvements for building drivers
  arch/tile: disable GX prefetcher during cache flush
  arch/tile: tolerate disabling CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
  ...

compat: fixes to allow working with tile arch

2011-05-12T19:51:36+00:00

The existing  mechanism doesn't really provide
enough to create the 64-bit "compat" ABI properly in a generic way,
since the compat ABI is a mix of things were you can re-use the 64-bit
versions of syscalls and things where you need a compat wrapper.

To provide this in the most direct way possible, I added two new macros
to go along with the existing __SYSCALL and __SC_3264 macros: __SC_COMP
and SC_COMP_3264.  These macros take an additional argument, typically a
"compat_sys_xxx" function, which is passed to __SYSCALL if you define
__SYSCALL_COMPAT when including the header, resulting in a pointer to
the compat function being placed in the generated syscall table.

The change also adds some missing definitions to  so that
it actually has declarations for all the compat syscalls, since the
"[nr] = ##call" approach requires proper C declarations for all the
functions included in the syscall table.

Finally, compat.c defines compat_sys_sigpending() and
compat_sys_sigprocmask() even if the underlying architecture doesn't
request it, which tries to pull in undefined compat_old_sigset_t defines.
We need to guard those compat syscall definitions with appropriate
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_xxx ifdefs.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf

signal: introduce do_sigtimedwait() to factor out compat/native code

2011-04-28T11:01:38+00:00

Factor out the common code in sys_rt_sigtimedwait/compat_sys_rt_sigtimedwait
to the new helper, do_sigtimedwait().

Add the comment to document the extra tick we add to timespec_to_jiffies(ts),
thanks to Linus who explained this to me.

Perhaps it would be better to move compat_sys_rt_sigtimedwait() into
signal.c under CONFIG_COMPAT, then we can make do_sigtimedwait() static.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming

signal: sys_rt_sigtimedwait: simplify the timeout logic

2011-04-28T11:01:38+00:00

No functional changes, cleanup compat_sys_rt_sigtimedwait() and
sys_rt_sigtimedwait().

Calculate the timeout before we take ->siglock, this simplifies and
lessens the code. Use timespec_valid() to check the timespec.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming

posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning.

2011-02-02T14:28:19+00:00

A new syscall is introduced that allows tuning of a POSIX clock. The
new call, clock_adjtime, takes two parameters, the clock ID and a
pointer to a struct timex. Any ADJTIMEX(2) operation may be requested
via this system call, but various POSIX clocks may or may not support
tuning.

[ tglx: Adapted to the posix-timer cleanup series. Avoid copy_to_user
  	in the error case ]

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran 
Acked-by: John Stultz 
LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.869804645@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

time: Splitout compat timex accessors

2011-02-02T14:28:18+00:00

Split out the compat timex accessors into separate
functions. Preparatory patch for a new syscall.

[ tglx: Split that patch from Richards "posix-timers: Introduce a
  	syscall for clock tuning.". Keeps the changes strictly
  	separate ]

Originally-from: Richard Cochran 
Acked-by: John Stultz 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
LKML-Reference: <20110201134419.772343089@linutronix.de>

compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()

2010-09-14T23:08:45+00:00

compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call
access_ok() to verify the returned area.  A missing call could
introduce problems on some architectures.

This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into
compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length.
The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed
arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the
implementation of the new global function.

This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either
fail or access userspace on all architectures.  This should be
followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space()
for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers
can also be removed.

Reported-by: Ben Hawkes 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Tony Luck 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc:

rlimits: switch more rlimit syscalls to do_prlimit

2010-07-16T07:48:48+00:00

After we added more generic do_prlimit, switch sys_getrlimit to that.
Also switch compat handling, so we can get rid of ugly __user casts
and avoid setting process' address limit to kernel data and back.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

cpumask: fix compat getaffinity

2010-05-19T18:48:18+00:00

Commit a45185d2d "cpumask: convert kernel/compat.c" broke libnuma, which
abuses sched_getaffinity to find out NR_CPUS in order to parse
/sys/devices/system/node/node*/cpumap.

On NUMA systems with less than 32 possibly CPUs, the current
compat_sys_sched_getaffinity now returns '4' instead of the actual
NR_CPUS/8, which makes libnuma bail out when parsing the cpumap.

The libnuma call sched_getaffinity(0, bitmap, 4096) at first.  It mean
the libnuma expect the return value of sched_getaffinity() is either len
argument or NR_CPUS.  But it doesn't expect to return nr_cpu_ids.

Strictly speaking, userland requirement are

1) Glibc assume the return value mean the lengh of initialized
   of mask argument. E.g. if sched_getaffinity(1024) return 128,
   glibc make zero fill rest 896 byte.
2) Libnuma assume the return value can be used to guess NR_CPUS
   in kernel. It assume len-arg
Acked-by: Rusty Russell 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Reported-by: Ken Werner 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn