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Author SHA1 Message Date
David S. Miller
50d266a3a1 [SPARC]: Hook up missing syscalls.
sys_mbind
sys_get_mempolicy
sys_set_mempolicy
sys_kexec_load
sys_move_pages
sys_getcpu
sys_epoll_pwait

This work is largely a result of David Woodhouse's most
excellent missing syscalls patch.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-12 19:58:18 -07:00
David S. Miller
ac33d1febb [SPARC]: We do not need OLD_GETRLIMIT.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-09 23:10:23 -08:00
David S. Miller
c4c31fe0e2 [SPARC]: Provide 'get_property()' alias for of_get_property().
Another powerpc compatibility item, this will allow us to share
more code with them.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-02 15:22:53 -08:00
David S. Miller
f6d0f9ea55 [SPARC]: Provide pci_device_to_OF_node() just like powerpc.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-02 15:22:51 -08:00
Al Viro
fdba0f2da4 [PATCH] add missing io...._rep() on sparc32
same as on sparc64

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 11:18:07 -08:00
Tilman Schmidt
4564f9e5fd [PATCH] consolidate line discipline number definitions
The line discipline numbers N_* are currently defined for each architecture
individually, but (except for a seeming mistake) identically, in
asm/termios.h.  There is no obvious reason why these numbers should be
architecture specific, nor any apparent relationship with the termios
structure.  The total number of these, NR_LDISCS, is defined in linux/tty.h
anyway.  So I propose the following patch which moves the definitions of
the individual line disciplines to linux/tty.h too.

Three of these numbers (N_MASC, N_PROFIBUS_FDL, and N_SMSBLOCK) are unused
in the current kernel, but the patch still keeps the complete set in case
there are plans to use them yet.

Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:26 -08:00
Bob Breuer
51bcf09291 [SPARC32]: Fix over-optimization by GCC near ip_fast_csum.
In some cases such as:
	iph->check = 0;
	iph->check = ip_fast_csum((unsigned char *)iph, iph->ihl);
GCC may optimize out the previous store.

Observed as a failure of NFS over udp (bad checksums on ip fragments)
when compiled with GCC 3.4.2.

Signed-off-by: Bob Breuer <breuerr@mc.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-01 20:24:35 -08:00
David S. Miller
e3a411a3df [SPARC64]: Fix of_iounmap() region release.
We need to pass in the resource otherwise we cannot
release the region properly.  We must know whether it is
an I/O or MEM resource.

Spotted by Eric Brower.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-31 14:06:05 -08:00
David S. Miller
8a8b836b91 [SPARC]: Make bitops use same spinlocks as atomics.
Recent workqueue changes basically make this a formal requirement.

Also, move atomic32.o from lib-y to obj-y since it exports symbols
to modules.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-17 16:18:47 -08:00
Ralf Baechle
ec8c0446b6 [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork
Virtually index, physically tagged cache architectures can get away
without cache flushing when forking.  This patch adds a new cache
flushing function flush_cache_dup_mm(struct mm_struct *) which for the
moment I've implemented to do the same thing on all architectures
except on MIPS where it's a no-op.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
Alan Cox
be90038a24 [PATCH] tty: preparatory structures for termios revamp
In order to sort out our struct termios and add proper speed control we need
to separate the kernel and user termios structures.  Glibc is fine but the
other libraries rely on the kernel exported struct termios and we need to
extend this without breaking the ABI/API

To do so we add a struct ktermios which is the kernel view of a termios
structure and overlaps the struct termios with extra fields on the end for
now.  (That limitation will go away in later patches).  Some platforms (eg
alpha) planned ahead and thus use the same struct for both, others did not.

This just adds the structures but does not use them, it seems a sensible
splitting point for bisect if there are compile failures (not that I expect
them)

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:56 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann
f5738ceed4 [PATCH] remove kernel syscalls
The last thing we agreed on was to remove the macros entirely for 2.6.19,
on all architectures. Unfortunately, I think nobody actually _did_ that,
so they are still there.

[akpm@osdl.org: x86_64 fix]
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:37 -08:00
Al Viro
16ec7e168d [NET]: SPARC checksum annotations and cleanups.
* sanitize prototypes, annotate
* kill bogus access_ok() in csum_partial_copy_from_user (the only caller checks)
* kill useless shift

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02 21:23:22 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
c6dbaef22a Driver core: add dev_archdata to struct device
Add arch specific dev_archdata to struct device

Adds an arch specific struct dev_arch to struct device. This enables
architecture to add specific fields to every device in the system, like
DMA operation pointers, NUMA node ID, firmware specific data, etc...

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
David S. Miller
59359ff877 [SPARC]: Fix robust futex syscalls and wire up migrate_pages.
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 <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-11-05 16:51:03 -08:00
David Woodhouse
6cf431d77c [SPARC]: Clean up asm-sparc/elf.h pollution in userspace.
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 <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-20 00:29:33 -07:00
David Howells
40220c1a19 IRQ: Use the new typedef for interrupt handler function pointers
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 <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-10-09 12:19:47 +01:00
Al Viro
7a39f52202 [PATCH] sparc32 rwlock fix
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 <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-08 12:32:35 -07:00
Al Viro
0d84438d98 [PATCH] sparc32 pt_regs fixes
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-08 12:32:35 -07:00
Uwe Zeisberger
f30c226954 fix file specification in comments
Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <Uwe_Zeisberger@digi.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 23:01:26 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann
135ab6ec8f [PATCH] remove remaining errno and __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ references
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 <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:23 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky
ef6edc9746 [PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks
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 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:21 -07:00
Dave McCracken
46a82b2d55 [PATCH] Standardize pxx_page macros
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 <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:51 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
a6d967a485 [libata] No need for all those arch libata-portmap.h headers
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 <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-25 15:33:09 -04:00
David Woodhouse
02b25fcff6 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2006-09-24 22:05:59 +01:00
Jeff Garzik
23930fa1ce Merge branch 'master' into upstream 2006-09-24 01:52:47 -04:00
David Woodhouse
09087a1a87 Fix exported headers for SPARC, SPARC64
Mostly removing files which have no business being used in userspace.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-21 08:48:27 +01:00
David Woodhouse
fadcfa33b6 [HEADERS] One line per header in Kbuild files to reduce conflicts
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-09-19 12:43:58 +01:00
Jeff Garzik
97148ba223 Merge branch 'master' into upstream 2006-09-12 12:03:21 -04:00
Kirill Korotaev
3a45975681 [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs
This prevents cross-region mappings on IA64 and SPARC which could lead
to system crash.  They were correctly trapped for normal mmap() calls,
but not for the kernel internal calls generated by executable loading.

This code just moves the architecture-specific cross-region checks into
an arch-specific "arch_mmap_check()" macro, and defines that for the
architectures that needed it (ia64, sparc and sparc64).

Architectures that don't have any special requirements can just ignore
the new cross-region check, since the mmap() code will just notice on
its own when the macro isn't defined.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[ Cleaned up to not affect architectures that don't need it ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-08 08:40:46 -07:00
Alan Cox
2ec7df0457 [PATCH] libata: rework legacy handling to remove much of the cruft
Kill host_set->next
Fix simplex support
Allow per platform setting of IDE legacy bases

Some of this can be tidied further later on, in particular all the
legacy port gunge belongs as a PCI quirk/PCI header decode to understand
the special legacy IDE rules in the PCI spec.

Longer term Jeff also wants to move the request_irq/free_irq out of core
which will make this even cleaner.

tj: folded in three followup patches - ata_piix-fix, broken-arch-fix
and fix-new-legacy-handling, and separated per-dev xfermask into
separate patch preceding this one.  Folded in fixes are...

* ata_piix-fix: fix build failure due to host_set->next removal
* broken-arch-fix: add missing include/asm-*/libata-portmap.h
* fix-new-legacy-handling:
	* In ata_pci_init_legacy_port(), probe_num was incorrectly
          incremented during initialization of the secondary port and
          probe_ent->n_ports was incorrectly fixed to 1.

	* Both legacy ports ended up having the same hard_port_no.

	* When printing port information, both legacy ports printed
	  the first irq.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
2006-08-10 16:59:10 +09:00
David S. Miller
29ed46015d [SPARC]: Fix SA_STATIC_ALLOC value.
It alises IRQF_SHARED which causes all kinds of
problems.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-24 22:34:00 -07:00
David S. Miller
06ffd7956e [SPARC]: Kill prom_getname, unused and not implemented properly.
The m68k port's sun3 asm/oplib.h had a stray reference too, so I
killed that off as well.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-21 14:17:55 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
52393ccc0a [PATCH] remove set_wmb - arch removal
set_wmb should not be used in the kernel because it just confuses the
code more and has no benefit.  Since it is not currently used in the
kernel this patch removes it so that new code does not include it.

All archs define set_wmb(var, value) to do { var = value; wmb(); }
while(0) except ia64 and sparc which use a mb() instead.  But this is
still moot since it is not used anyway.

Hasn't been tested on any archs but x86 and x86_64 (and only compiled
tested)

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:56:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6fa0cb1141 Merge git://git.infradead.org/hdrinstall-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/hdrinstall-2.6:
  Remove export of include/linux/isdn/tpam.h
  Remove <linux/i2c-id.h> and <linux/i2c-algo-ite.h> from userspace export
  Restrict headers exported to userspace for SPARC and SPARC64
  Add empty Kbuild files for 'make headers_install' in remaining arches.
  Add Kbuild file for Alpha 'make headers_install'
  Add Kbuild file for SPARC 'make headers_install'
  Add Kbuild file for IA64 'make headers_install'
  Add Kbuild file for S390 'make headers_install'
  Add Kbuild file for i386 'make headers_install'
  Add Kbuild file for x86_64 'make headers_install'
  Add Kbuild file for PowerPC 'make headers_install'
  Add generic Kbuild files for 'make headers_install'
  Basic implementation of 'make headers_check'
  Basic implementation of 'make headers_install'
2006-07-04 12:55:45 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
6741320247 [PATCH] irq-flags: SPARC: Use the new IRQF_ constants
Use the new IRQF_ constants and remove the SA_INTERRUPT define

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-02 13:58:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
74e651f0aa Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (30 commits)
  [TIPC]: Initial activation message now includes TIPC version number
  [TIPC]: Improve response to requests for node/link information
  [TIPC]: Fixed skb_under_panic caused by tipc_link_bundle_buf
  [IrDA]: Fix the AU1000 FIR dependencies
  [IrDA]: Fix RCU lock pairing on error path
  [XFRM]: unexport xfrm_state_mtu
  [NET]: make skb_release_data() static
  [NETFILTE] ipv4: Fix typo (Bugzilla #6753)
  [IrDA]: MCS7780 usb_driver struct should be static
  [BNX2]: Turn off link during shutdown
  [BNX2]: Use dev_kfree_skb() instead of the _irq version
  [ATM]: basic sysfs support for ATM devices
  [ATM]: [suni] change suni_init to __devinit
  [ATM]: [iphase] should be __devinit not __init
  [ATM]: [idt77105] should be __devinit not __init
  [BNX2]: Add NETIF_F_TSO_ECN
  [NET]: Add ECN support for TSO
  [AF_UNIX]: Datagram getpeersec
  [NET]: Fix logical error in skb_gso_ok
  [PKT_SCHED]: PSCHED_TADD() and PSCHED_TADD2() can result,tv_usec >= 1000000
  ...
2006-06-29 17:43:43 -07:00
Catherine Zhang
877ce7c1b3 [AF_UNIX]: Datagram getpeersec
This patch implements an API whereby an application can determine the
label of its peer's Unix datagram sockets via the auxiliary data mechanism of
recvmsg.

Patch purpose:

This patch enables a security-aware application to retrieve the
security context of the peer of a Unix datagram socket.  The application
can then use this security context to determine the security context for
processing on behalf of the peer who sent the packet.

Patch design and implementation:

The design and implementation is very similar to the UDP case for INET
sockets.  Basically we build upon the existing Unix domain socket API for
retrieving user credentials.  Linux offers the API for obtaining user
credentials via ancillary messages (i.e., out of band/control messages
that are bundled together with a normal message).  To retrieve the security
context, the application first indicates to the kernel such desire by
setting the SO_PASSSEC option via getsockopt.  Then the application
retrieves the security context using the auxiliary data mechanism.

An example server application for Unix datagram socket should look like this:

toggle = 1;
toggle_len = sizeof(toggle);

setsockopt(sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PASSSEC, &toggle, &toggle_len);
recvmsg(sockfd, &msg_hdr, 0);
if (msg_hdr.msg_controllen > sizeof(struct cmsghdr)) {
    cmsg_hdr = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg_hdr);
    if (cmsg_hdr->cmsg_len <= CMSG_LEN(sizeof(scontext)) &&
        cmsg_hdr->cmsg_level == SOL_SOCKET &&
        cmsg_hdr->cmsg_type == SCM_SECURITY) {
        memcpy(&scontext, CMSG_DATA(cmsg_hdr), sizeof(scontext));
    }
}

sock_setsockopt is enhanced with a new socket option SOCK_PASSSEC to allow
a server socket to receive security context of the peer.

Testing:

We have tested the patch by setting up Unix datagram client and server
applications.  We verified that the server can retrieve the security context
using the auxiliary data mechanism of recvmsg.

Signed-off-by: Catherine Zhang <cxzhang@watson.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:58:06 -07:00
David S. Miller
8f96cd1a69 [SPARC]: sparc32 side of of_device layer IRQ resolution.
Happily, life is much simpler on 32-bit sparc systems.
The "intr" property, preferred over the "interrupts"
property is used-as.  Some minor translations of this
value happen on sun4d systems.

The stage is now set to rewrite the sparc serial driver
probing to use the of_driver framework, and then to convert
all SBUS, EBUS, and ISA drivers in-kind so that we can nuke
all those special bus frameworks.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:37:40 -07:00
David S. Miller
946ea09962 [SPARC]: Kill interrupt stuff and linux_phandle from device_node.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:37:25 -07:00
David S. Miller
3ca9fab410 [SPARC]: Add of_io{remap,unmap}().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:37:16 -07:00
David S. Miller
cf44bbc26c [SPARC]: Beginnings of generic of_device framework.
The idea is to fully construct the device register and
interrupt values into these of_device objects, and convert
all of SBUS, EBUS, ISA drivers to use this new stuff.

Much ideas and code taken from Ben H.'s powerpc work.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:37:12 -07:00
David S. Miller
3ae9a3489a [SPARC]: Add of_n_{addr,size}_cells().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:37:10 -07:00
David S. Miller
749805dc10 [SPARC]: Add iomap interfaces.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-25 23:24:24 -07:00
David S. Miller
87b385da1f [SPARC]: Add unique device_node IDs and a ".node" property.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-25 23:18:57 -07:00
David S. Miller
fb7cd9d9ac [SPARC]: Add of_set_property() interface.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-25 23:18:36 -07:00
David S. Miller
576c352e89 [SBUS]: Rewrite and plug into of_device framework.
I severely apologize, I was still learning how to program
in C when I wrote this stuff 10 years ago...

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-23 23:15:50 -07:00
David S. Miller
fd53143116 [SPARC]: Port of_device layer and make ebus use it.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-23 23:15:47 -07:00
David S. Miller
942a6bdd1c [SPARC]: Port sparc64 in-kernel device tree code to sparc32.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-23 23:15:45 -07:00
David S. Miller
8fae097deb [SBUS]: Start cleaning up generic sbus support layer.
In particular, move the IRQ probing out to sparc32/sparc64
arch specific code where it belongs.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-23 23:15:00 -07:00
Jan Beulich
908dcecda1 [PATCH] adjust handle_IRR_event() return type
Correct the return type of handle_IRQ_event() (inconsistency noticed during
Xen development), and remove redundant declarations.  The return type
adjustment required breaking out the definition of irqreturn_t into a
separate header, in order to satisfy current include order dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>

Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:43:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
be883da759 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
  [SPARC64]: Don't double-export synchronize_irq.
  [SPARC64]: Move over to GENERIC_HARDIRQS.
  [SPARC64]: Virtualize IRQ numbers.
  [SPARC64]: Kill ino_bucket->pil
  [SPARC]: Kill __irq_itoa().
  [SPARC64]: bp->pil can never be zero
  [SPARC64]: Send all device interrupts via one PIL.
  [SPARC]: Fix iommu_flush_iotlb end address
  [SPARC]: Mark smp init functions as cpuinit
  [SPARC]: Add missing rw can_lock macros
  [SPARC]: Setup cpu_possible_map
  [SPARC]: Add topology_init()
2006-06-20 17:39:28 -07:00
David S. Miller
c6387a48cf [SPARC]: Kill __irq_itoa().
This ugly hack was long overdue to die.

It was a way to print out Sparc interrupts in a more freindly format,
since IRQ numbers were arbitrary opaque 32-bit integers which vectored
into PIL levels.  These 32-bit integers were not necessarily in the
0-->NR_IRQS range, but the PILs they vectored to were.

The idea now is that we will increase NR_IRQS a little bit and use a
virtual<-->real IRQ number mapping scheme similar to PowerPC.

That makes this IRQ printing hack irrelevant, and furthermore only a
handful of drivers actually used __irq_itoa() making it even less
useful.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-20 01:21:29 -07:00
Bob Breuer
61fc12d8e5 [SPARC]: Add missing rw can_lock macros
Fix a link failure by adding the missing can_lock macros for the rw
locks.

Signed-off-by: Bob Breuer <breuerr@mc.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-20 00:35:13 -07:00
David S. Miller
4d1a099828 Restrict headers exported to userspace for SPARC and SPARC64
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-06-20 08:34:40 +01:00
Bob Breuer
7202fb496a [SPARC]: Setup cpu_possible_map
Setup cpu_possible_map so the secondary cpus will get started.

Signed-off-by: Bob Breuer <breuerr@mc.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-20 00:30:31 -07:00
David Woodhouse
a29ee9f3bf Add Kbuild file for SPARC 'make headers_install'
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-06-18 12:22:49 +01:00
David Woodhouse
66643de455 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	include/asm-powerpc/unistd.h
	include/asm-sparc/unistd.h
	include/asm-sparc64/unistd.h

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-05-24 09:22:21 +01:00
David S. Miller
353b28bafd [SPARC]: Add robust futex syscall entries.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-21 21:22:53 -07:00
David Woodhouse
5047f09b56 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-05-06 19:59:18 +01:00
David S. Miller
8c45112b82 [SPARC]: Hook up vmsplice into syscall tables.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-03 13:55:46 -07:00
David Woodhouse
5614253686 Remove unneeded _syscallX macros from user view in asm-*/unistd.h
These aren't needed by glibc or klibc, and they're broken in some cases
anyway. The uClibc folks are apparently switching over to stop using
them too (now that we agreed that they should be dropped, at least).

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-04-29 01:51:47 +01:00
David Woodhouse
62c4f0a2d5 Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-04-26 12:56:16 +01:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
d8fe3f1920 [SPARC]: __NR_sys removal
__NR_sys_sync_file_range part was lost somewhere...
[glibc is already checking __NR_sync_file_range]

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-24 13:48:51 -07:00
David S. Miller
2784f40e27 [SPARC]: __NR_sys_splice --> __NR_splice
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-19 15:00:01 -07:00
David S. Miller
5fdef39495 [SPARC]: Hook up sys_tee() into syscall tables.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-14 15:29:32 -07:00
Andrew Morton
ac50ab3e45 [PATCH] sparc32 vga support
sparc32 lacks vga.h, so lots of fbdev drivers won't compile.  There are no
sparc32 systems with PCI slots, so it's a bit moot.

The patch gives sparc32 a copy of the sparc64 vga.h.  It fixes sparc32
allmodconfig without mucking up fbdev Kconfig and gives us wider compile
coverage.

Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11 06:18:54 -07:00
David S. Miller
289eee6fa7 [SPARC]: Wire up sys_sync_file_range() into syscall tables.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-31 23:49:34 -08:00
David S. Miller
1339713a32 [SPARC]: Wire up sys_splice() into the syscall tables.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-31 23:03:38 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
064b2a0762 [PATCH] unify pfn_to_page: sparc pfn_to_page
sparc can use generic funcs.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:46 -08:00
Akinobu Mita
d59288b757 [PATCH] bitops: sparc: use generic bitops
- remove __{,test_and_}{set,clear,change}_bit() and test_bit()
- remove ffz()
- remove __ffs()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
- remove ffs()
- remove generic_fls()
- remove generic_fls64()
- remove generic_hweight{32,16,8}()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear}_bit_atomic()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:57:14 -08:00
Akinobu Mita
67b0ad574b [PATCH] bitops: use non atomic operations for minix_*_bit() and ext2_*_bit()
Bitmap functions for the minix filesystem and the ext2 filesystem except
ext2_set_bit_atomic() and ext2_clear_bit_atomic() do not require the atomic
guarantees.

But these are defined by using atomic bit operations on several architectures.
 (cris, frv, h8300, ia64, m32r, m68k, m68knommu, mips, s390, sh, sh64, sparc,
sparc64, v850, and xtensa)

This patch switches to non atomic bit operation.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:57:10 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d71eecf3b8 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC]: Try to start getting SMP back into shape.
2006-03-25 08:39:55 -08:00
Davide Libenzi
f348d70a32 [PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notifications
Implement the half-closed devices notifiation, by adding a new POLLRDHUP
(and its alias EPOLLRDHUP) bit to the existing poll/select sets.  Since the
existing POLLHUP handling, that does not report correctly half-closed
devices, was feared to be changed, this implementation leaves the current
POLLHUP reporting unchanged and simply add a new bit that is set in the few
places where it makes sense.  The same thing was discussed and conceptually
agreed quite some time ago:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/12/116

Since this new event bit is added to the existing Linux poll infrastruture,
even the existing poll/select system calls will be able to use it.  As far
as the existing POLLHUP handling, the patch leaves it as is.  The
pollrdhup-2.6.16.rc5-0.10.diff defines the POLLRDHUP for all the existing
archs and sets the bit in the six relevant files.  The other attached diff
is the simple change required to sys/epoll.h to add the EPOLLRDHUP
definition.

There is "a stupid program" to test POLLRDHUP delivery here:

 http://www.xmailserver.org/pollrdhup-test.c

It tests poll(2), but since the delivery is same epoll(2) will work equally.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:56 -08:00
Bob Breuer
a54123e277 [SPARC]: Try to start getting SMP back into shape.
Todo items:
 - IRQ_INPROGRESS flag - use sparc64 irq buckets, or generic irq_desc?
 - sun4d
 - re-indent large chunks of sun4m_smp.c
 - some places assume sequential cpu numbering (i.e. 0,1 instead of 0,2)

Last I checked (with 2.6.14), random programs segfault with dual
HyperSPARC.  And with SuperSPARC II's, it seems stable but will
eventually die from a write lock error (wrong lock owner or something).

I haven't tried the HyperSPARC + highmem combination recently, so that
may still be a problem.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-23 22:36:19 -08:00
David S. Miller
14778d9072 [SPARC]: Respect vm_page_prot in io_remap_page_range().
Make sure the callers do a pgprot_noncached() on
vma->vm_page_prot.

Pointed out by Hugh Dickens.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-22 01:15:13 -08:00
David S. Miller
c8b2a6c50c [SPARC]: Fixup SO_PEERSEC value on 32-bit sparc.
Sparc64 and Sparc32 have to have identical socket call
numbering in order to handle compat layer stuff properly.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:53:42 -08:00
David S. Miller
bc45e32e0f [SPARC]: Kill off these __put_user_ret things.
They are bogus and haven't been referenced in years.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:13:15 -08:00
David S. Miller
1a7a242c89 [SPARC64]: Recognize "virtual-console" as input and output console device.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:12:28 -08:00
David S. Miller
5fe91cf625 [SPARC]: Clean up idprom header files.
Delete unused macros, and use fixed sized types in
sparc32 header.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 01:12:08 -08:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
5f6164f309 [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h
Make new MADV_REMOVE, MADV_DONTFORK, MADV_DOFORK consistent across all
arches.  The idea is to make it possible to use them portably even before
distros include them in libc headers.

Move common flags to asm-generic/mman.h

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-15 15:32:22 -08:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
f822566165 [PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK
Currently, copy-on-write may change the physical address of a page even if the
user requested that the page is pinned in memory (either by mlock or by
get_user_pages).  This happens if the process forks meanwhile, and the parent
writes to that page.  As a result, the page is orphaned: in case of
get_user_pages, the application will never see any data hardware DMA's into
this page after the COW.  In case of mlock'd memory, the parent is not getting
the realtime/security benefits of mlock.

In particular, this affects the Infiniband modules which do DMA from and into
user pages all the time.

This patch adds madvise options to control whether memory range is inherited
across fork.  Useful e.g.  for when hardware is doing DMA from/into these
pages.  Could also be useful to an application wanting to speed up its forks
by cutting large areas out of consideration.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-14 16:09:34 -08:00
David S. Miller
40ad7a6afc [SPARC]: sys_newfstatat --> sys_fstatat64
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-12 23:30:11 -08:00
David S. Miller
1b9a428901 [SPARC]: Wire up sys_unshare().
Also, the Solaris syscall table is sized differrently,
and does not go beyond entry 255, so trim off the excess
entries.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-07 18:11:24 -08:00
David S. Miller
2d7d5f0511 [SPARC]: Add support for *at(), ppoll, and pselect syscalls.
This also includes by necessity _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support,
which actually resulted in a lot of cleanups.

The sparc signal handling code is quite a mess and I should
clean it up some day.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-19 02:42:49 -08:00
David S. Miller
f7111ceb52 [SPARC]: sparc32 needs PROMDEV_{I,O}RSC defines too.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-18 21:57:37 -08:00
Al Viro
f5a61d0c13 [PATCH] death of get_thread_info/put_thread_info
{get,put}_thread_info() were introduced in 2.5.4 and never
had been called by anything in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:59 -08:00
Al Viro
d562ef6a23 [PATCH] sparc: task_thread_info()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:53 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
4dc7a0bbeb [PATCH] sched: add cacheflush() asm
Add per-arch sched_cacheflush() which is a write-back cacheflush used by
the migration-cost calibration code at bootup time.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:08:49 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
2acbb8c657 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, add default include/asm-*/mutex.h files
add the per-arch mutex.h files for the remaining architectures.

We default to asm-generic/mutex-dec.h, because that performs
quite well on most arches. Arches that do not have atomic
decrement/increment instructions should switch to mutex-xchg.h
instead. Arches can also provide their own implementation for
the mutex fastpath primitives.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-09 15:59:19 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
ffbf670f5c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, add atomic_xchg() to all arches
add atomic_xchg() to all the architectures. Needed by the new mutex code.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
2006-01-09 15:59:17 -08:00
Jeff Dike
f8aaeacec1 [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h
Most of the architectures have the same asm/futex.h.  This consolidates them
into asm-generic, with the arches including it from their own asm/futex.h.

In the case of UML, this reverts the old broken futex.h and goes back to using
the same one as almost everyone else.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai
1fd73c6b67 [PATCH] Kill L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX
Kill L1_CACHE_SHIFT from all arches.  Since L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX is not used
anymore with the introduction of INTERNODE_CACHE, kill L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
d3cb487149 [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2
Several counters already have the need to use 64 atomic variables on 64 bit
platforms (see mm_counter_t in sched.h).  We have to do ugly ifdefs to fall
back to 32 bit atomic on 32 bit platforms.

The VM statistics patch that I am working on will also make more extensive
use of atomic64.

This patch introduces a new type atomic_long_t by providing definitions in
asm-generic/atomic.h that works similar to the c "long" type.  Its 32 bits
on 32 bit platforms and 64 bits on 64 bit platforms.

Also cleans up the determination of the mm_counter_t in sched.h.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
Badari Pulavarty
f6b3ec238d [PATCH] madvise(MADV_REMOVE): remove pages from tmpfs shm backing store
Here is the patch to implement madvise(MADV_REMOVE) - which frees up a
given range of pages & its associated backing store.  Current
implementation supports only shmfs/tmpfs and other filesystems return
-ENOSYS.

"Some app allocates large tmpfs files, then when some task quits and some
client disconnect, some memory can be released.  However the only way to
release tmpfs-swap is to MADV_REMOVE". - Andrea Arcangeli

Databases want to use this feature to drop a section of their bufferpool
(shared memory segments) - without writing back to disk/swap space.

This feature is also useful for supporting hot-plug memory on UML.

Concerns raised by Andrew Morton:

- "We have no plan for holepunching!  If we _do_ have such a plan (or
  might in the future) then what would the API look like?  I think
  sys_holepunch(fd, start, len), so we should start out with that."

- Using madvise is very weird, because people will ask "why do I need to
  mmap my file before I can stick a hole in it?"

- None of the other madvise operations call into the filesystem in this
  manner.  A broad question is: is this capability an MM operation or a
  filesytem operation?  truncate, for example, is a filesystem operation
  which sometimes has MM side-effects.  madvise is an mm operation and with
  this patch, it gains FS side-effects, only they're really, really
  significant ones."

Comments:

- Andrea suggested the fs operation too but then it's more efficient to
  have it as a mm operation with fs side effects, because they don't
  immediatly know fd and physical offset of the range.  It's possible to
  fixup in userland and to use the fs operation but it's more expensive,
  the vmas are already in the kernel and we can use them.

Short term plan &  Future Direction:

- We seem to need this interface only for shmfs/tmpfs files in the short
  term.  We have to add hooks into the filesystem for correctness and
  completeness.  This is what this patch does.

- In the future, plan is to support both fs and mmap apis also.  This
  also involves (other) filesystem specific functions to be implemented.

- Current patch doesn't support VM_NONLINEAR - which can be addressed in
  the future.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:22 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
3821af2fe1 [FLS64]: generic version
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-03 13:11:06 -08:00
Al Viro
a32972965e [PATCH] sun4c_memerr_reg __iomem annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-15 10:01:29 -08:00
Al Viro
f8ad23a401 [PATCH] fix iomem annotations in sparc32 pcic code
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-15 10:01:28 -08:00
Nick Piggin
8426e1f6af [PATCH] atomic: inc_not_zero
Introduce an atomic_inc_not_zero operation.  Make this a special case of
atomic_add_unless because lockless pagecache actually wants
atomic_inc_not_negativeone due to its offset refcount.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:16 -08:00
Nick Piggin
4a6dae6d38 [PATCH] atomic: cmpxchg
Introduce an atomic_cmpxchg operation.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:16 -08:00