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Author SHA1 Message Date
Russell King
155bb14482 [PATCH] ARM: Add inline functions to find the pmd from virtual address
Add pmd_off() and pmd_off_k() to obtain the pmd pointer for a
virtual address, and use them throughout the mm initialisation.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-09 20:52:51 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
4b0e07a556 [PATCH] ARM: 2663/1: straightify TLS register emulation a bit more
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

This better express things, and should cover RMK's weird SMP toys.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-05 23:24:45 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
48af721540 [PATCH] ARM: 2662/1: missing "default y" for CONFIG_HAS_TLS_REG
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-03 22:57:56 +01:00
George G. Davis
ca315159df [PATCH] ARM: 2656/1: Access permission bits are wrong for kernel XIP sections on ARMv6
Patch from George G. Davis

This patch is required for kernel XIP support on ARMv6 machines.  It ensures that the access permission bits for kernel XIP section descriptors are APX=1 and AP[1:0]=01, which is Kernel read-only/User no access permissions.  Prior to this change, kernel XIP section descriptor access permissions were set to Kernel no access/User no access on ARMv6 machines and the kernel would therefore hang upon entry to userspace when set_fs(USER_DS) was executed.

Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam
Signed-off-by: George G. Davis
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-29 22:08:35 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
2d2669b629 [PATCH] ARM: 2651/3: kernel helpers for NPTL support
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

This patch entirely reworks the kernel assistance for NPTL on ARM.
In particular this provides an efficient way to retrieve the TLS
value and perform atomic operations without any instruction emulation
nor special system call.  This even allows for pre ARMv6 binaries to
be forward compatible with SMP systems without any penalty.
The problematic and performance critical operations are performed
through segment of kernel provided user code reachable from user space
at a fixed address in kernel memory.  Those fixed entry points are
within the vector page so we basically get it for free as no extra
memory page is required and nothing else may be mapped at that
location anyway.
This is different from (but doesn't preclude) a full blown VDSO
implementation, however a VDSO would prevent some assembly tricks with
constants that allows for efficient branching to those code segments.
And since those code segments only use a few cycles before returning to
user code, the overhead of a VDSO far call would add a significant
overhead to such minimalistic operations.
The ARM_NR_set_tls syscall also changed number.  This is done for two
reasons:
1) this patch changes the way the TLS value was previously meant to be
   retrieved, therefore we ensure whatever library using the old way
   gets fixed (they only exist in private tree at the moment since the
   NPTL work is still progressing).
2) the previous number was allocated in a range causing an undefined
   instruction trap on kernels not supporting that syscall and it was
   determined that allocating it in a range returning -ENOSYS would be
   much nicer for libraries trying to determine if the feature is
   present or not.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-29 22:08:33 +01:00
George G. Davis
3a1e501511 [PATCH] ARM: 2655/1: ARM1136 SWP instruction abort handler fix
Patch from George G. Davis

As noted in http://www.arm.com/linux/patch-2.6.9-arm1.gz, the "Faulty SWP instruction on 1136 doesn't set bit 11 in DFSR." So the v6_early_abort handler does not report the correct rd/wr direction for the SWP instruction which may result in SEGVS or hangs. In order to work around this problem, this patch merely updates the fix contained in the ARM Ltd. patch to use the macroised abort handler fixups.

Signed-off-by: George G. Davis
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-29 22:08:33 +01:00
akpm@osdl.org
d42ce812b8 [PATCH] arm: add comment about max_low_pfn/max_pfn
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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>

Oddly, max_low_pfn/max_pfn end up being the number of pages in the system,
rather than the maximum PFN on ARM.  This doesn't seem to cause any problems,
so just add a note about it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:23:57 -07:00
akpm@osdl.org
2d137c24e9 [PATCH] arm: fix SIGBUS handling
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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>

ARM wasn't raising a SIGBUS with a siginfo structure.  Fix
__do_user_fault() to allow us to use it for SIGBUS conditions, and arrange
for the sigbus path to use this.

We need to prevent the siginfo code being called if we do not have a user
space context to call it, so consolidate the "user_mode()" tests.

Thanks to Ian Campbell who spotted this oversight.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:23:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00