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Linus Torvalds
ea62ccd00f Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (231 commits)
  [PATCH] i386: Don't delete cpu_devs data to identify different x86 types in late_initcall
  [PATCH] i386: type may be unused
  [PATCH] i386: Some additional chipset register values validation.
  [PATCH] i386: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split.
  [PATCH] x86-64: Don't exclude asm-offsets.c in Documentation/dontdiff
  [PATCH] i386: avoid redundant preempt_disable in __unlazy_fpu
  [PATCH] i386: white space fixes in i387.h
  [PATCH] i386: Drop noisy e820 debugging printks
  [PATCH] x86-64: Fix allnoconfig error in genapic_flat.c
  [PATCH] x86-64: Shut up warnings for vfat compat ioctls on other file systems
  [PATCH] x86-64: Share identical video.S between i386 and x86-64
  [PATCH] x86-64: Remove CONFIG_REORDER
  [PATCH] x86-64: Print type and size correctly for unknown compat ioctls
  [PATCH] i386: Remove copy_*_user BUG_ONs for (size < 0)
  [PATCH] i386: Little cleanups in smpboot.c
  [PATCH] x86-64: Don't enable NUMA for a single node in K8 NUMA scanning
  [PATCH] x86: Use RDTSCP for synchronous get_cycles if possible
  [PATCH] i386: Add X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP
  [PATCH] i386: Implement X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC on i386
  [PATCH] i386: Implement alternative_io for i386
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in include/linux/highmem.h manually.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-05 14:55:20 -07:00
Jean Delvare
a9dfd281a7 PCI: scatterlist.h needs types.h
Most architectures' scatterlist.h use the type dma_addr_t, but omit to
include <asm/types.h> which defines it.  This could lead to build failures,
so let's add the missing includes.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:02:34 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
d6dd61c831 [PATCH] x86: PARAVIRT: add hooks to intercept mm creation and destruction
Add hooks to allow a paravirt implementation to track the lifetime of
an mm.  Paravirtualization requires three hooks, but only two are
needed in common code.  They are:

arch_dup_mmap, which is called when a new mmap is created at fork

arch_exit_mmap, which is called when the last process reference to an
  mm is dropped, which typically happens on exit and exec.

The third hook is activate_mm, which is called from the arch-specific
activate_mm() macro/function, and so doesn't need stub versions for
other architectures.  It's called when an mm is first used.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-05-02 19:27:14 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
15c5403396 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: (448 commits)
  [IPV4] nl_fib_lookup: Initialise res.r before fib_res_put(&res)
  [IPV6]: Fix thinko in ipv6_rthdr_rcv() changes.
  [IPV4]: Add multipath cached to feature-removal-schedule.txt
  [WIRELESS] cfg80211: Clarify locking comment.
  [WIRELESS] cfg80211: Fix locking in wiphy_new.
  [WEXT] net_device: Don't include wext bits if not required.
  [WEXT]: Misc code cleanups.
  [WEXT]: Reduce inline abuse.
  [WEXT]: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL statements where they belong.
  [WEXT]: Cleanup early ioctl call path.
  [WEXT]: Remove options.
  [WEXT]: Remove dead debug code.
  [WEXT]: Clean up how wext is called.
  [WEXT]: Move to net/wireless
  [AFS]: Eliminate cmpxchg() usage in vlocation code.
  [RXRPC]: Fix pointers passed to bitops.
  [RXRPC]: Remove bogus atomic_* overrides.
  [AFS]: Fix u64 printing in debug logging.
  [AFS]: Add "directory write" support.
  [AFS]: Implement the CB.InitCallBackState3 operation.
  ...
2007-04-27 09:26:46 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
a4c9bb7d22 [MIPS] Replace old fashioned "__typeof" with "__typeof__".
[Robert's original log message said this was a bug but it isn't, it's
just very old fashioned syntax that is not (no longer?) documented in the
gcc documentation.  So for the sake of uniformity I'm applying his
patch but with a modified log message. -- Ralf]

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-04-27 16:20:25 +01:00
Mark Mason
8deab1144b [MIPS] Updated Sibyte headers
This is an update to the earlier patch for the sibyte headers, and superceeds
the previous patch.  Changes were necessary to get the tbprof driver working
on the bcm1480.

Patch to update Sibyte header files to match master versions maintained
at Broadcom.  This patch also corrects some whitespace problems, and
(hopefully) shouldn't introduce any new ones.

Signed-off-by: Mark Mason <mason@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-04-27 16:20:24 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
eacb9d6191 [MIPS] Remove unused argument from kunmap_coherent().
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-04-27 16:20:24 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
78709b9df3 [MIPS] IP22: Get rid of volatile in IP22 core code.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-04-27 16:20:23 +01:00
Atsushi Nemoto
2127435e57 [MIPS] JMR3927 cleanup
* Kill dead codes
* Rearrange irq chip handlers
* Minimize defconfig

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-04-27 16:20:23 +01:00
Eric Dumazet
92f37fd2ee [NET]: Adding SO_TIMESTAMPNS / SCM_TIMESTAMPNS support
Now that network timestamps use ktime_t infrastructure, we can add a new
SOL_SOCKET sockopt  SO_TIMESTAMPNS.

This command is similar to SO_TIMESTAMP, but permits transmission of
a 'timespec struct' instead of a 'timeval struct' control message.
(nanosecond resolution instead of microsecond)

Control message is labelled SCM_TIMESTAMPNS instead of SCM_TIMESTAMP

A socket cannot mix SO_TIMESTAMP and SO_TIMESTAMPNS : the two modes are
mutually exclusive.

sock_recv_timestamp() became too big to be fully inlined so I added a
__sock_recv_timestamp() helper function.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
CC: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:21 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
ae40eb1ef3 [NET]: Introduce SIOCGSTAMPNS ioctl to get timestamps with nanosec resolution
Now network timestamps use ktime_t infrastructure, we can add a new
ioctl() SIOCGSTAMPNS command to get timestamps in 'struct timespec'.
User programs can thus access to nanosecond resolution.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:04 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
3927f2e8f9 [NET]: div64_64 consolidate (rev3)
Here is the current version of the 64 bit divide common code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:23:33 -07:00
Dave Johnson
1d464c26b5 [MIPS] Fix wrong checksum for split TCP packets on 64-bit MIPS
I've traced down an off-by-one TCP checksum calculation error under
the following conditions:

1) The TCP code needs to split a full-sized packet due to a reduced
   MSS (typically due to the addition of TCP options mid-stream like
   SACK).
   _AND_
2) The checksum of the 2nd fragment is larger than the checksum of the
   original packet.  After subtraction this results in a checksum for
   the 1st fragment with bits 16..31 set to 1. (this is ok)
   _AND_
3) The checksum of the 1st fragment's TCP header plus the previously
   32bit checksum of the 1st fragment DOES NOT cause a 32bit overflow
   when added together.  This results in a checksum of the TCP header
   plus TCP data that still has the upper 16 bits as 1's.
   _THEN_
4) The TCP+data checksum is added to the checksum of the pseudo IP
   header with csum_tcpudp_nofold() incorrectly (the bug).
    
The problem is the checksum of the TCP+data is passed to
csum_tcpudp_nofold() as an 32bit unsigned value, however the assembly
code acts on it as if it is a 64bit unsigned value.

This causes an incorrect 32->64bit extension if the sum has bit 31
set.  The resulting checksum is off by one.
    
This problems is data and TCP header dependent due to #2 and #3
above so it doesn't occur on every TCP packet split.
    
Signed-off-by: Dave Johnson <djohnson+linux-mips@sw.starentnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-04-20 14:58:37 +01:00
Atsushi Nemoto
ba755f8ec8 [MIPS] Fix BUG(), BUG_ON() handling
With commit 63dc68a8cf, kernel can not
handle BUG() and BUG_ON() properly since get_user() returns false for
kernel code.  Use __get_user() to skip unnecessary access_ok().  This
patch also make BRK_BUG code encoded in the TNE instruction.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-04-20 14:58:37 +01:00
Atsushi Nemoto
faea623464 [MIPS] Retry {save,restore}_fp_context if failed in atomic context.
The save_fp_context()/restore_fp_context() might sleep on accessing
user stack and therefore might lose FPU ownership in middle of them.

If these function failed due to "in_atomic" test in do_page_fault,
touch the sigcontext area in non-atomic context and retry these
save/restore operation.

This is a replacement of a (broken) fix which was titled "Allow CpU
exception in kernel partially".

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-04-20 14:58:37 +01:00
Atsushi Nemoto
5323180db7 [MIPS] Disallow CpU exception in kernel again.
The commit 4d40bff7110e9e1a97ff8c01bdd6350e9867cc10 ("Allow CpU
exception in kernel partially") was broken.  The commit was to fix
theoretical problem but broke usual case.  Revert it for now.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-04-20 14:58:37 +01:00
Mark Mason
9a9943575a [MIPS] Add missing silicon revisions for BCM112x
Recent versions of the BCM112X processors aren't recognized by Linux
(preventing Linux from booting on those processors).  This patch adds
support for those that are missing.

Signed-off-by: Mark Mason <mason@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-04-20 14:58:37 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
8a1e97ee2e [MIPS] SMTC: Fix recursion in instant IPI replay code.
local_irq_restore -> raw_local_irq_restore -> irq_restore_epilog ->
	smtc_ipi_replay -> smtc_ipi_dq -> spin_unlock_irqrestore ->
	_spin_unlock_irqrestore -> local_irq_restore

The recursion does abort when there is no more IPI queued for a CPU, so
this isn't usually fatal which is why we got away with this for so long
until this was discovered by code inspection.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-29 23:46:36 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
eb541cb240 [MIPS] MV64340: Add missing prototype for mv64340_irq_init().
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-29 23:46:35 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
8fb303c7f1 [MIPS] SB1250: Fix bugs/warnings by creative use of volatile.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-24 17:01:50 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
ce486cd810 [MIPS] ARC: Fix warning.
The missing cast did result a warning when calling an 32-bit ARC firmware
function that takes 5 arguments where the 5th argument is a pointer from a
64-bit kernel.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-24 17:01:49 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
7575a49f20 [MIPS] Implement flush_anon_page().
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-24 17:01:49 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
7605b39061 [MIPS] Fix pipeline hazard.
In the the sequence:
        ei
        ..
        mfc0    $x, $status

the mfc0 may not see the SR_IE bit set. This was a deliberate bug in the
kernel code because we knew this was a safe thing to do on all R2 silicon
so far but new silicon is changing this.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-24 17:01:49 +00:00
Deepak Saxena
83598f1cb0 [MIPS] Make MIPS udelay() preempt safe under DEBUG_PREEMPT
Signed-off-by: Manish Lachwani <mlachwani@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-24 17:01:49 +00:00
Franck Bui-Huu
c9d0696223 [MIPS] Always use virt_to_phys() when translating kernel addresses
This patch fixes two places where we used plain 'x - PAGE_OFFSET' to
achieve virtual to physical address convertions. This type of convertion
is no more allowed since commit 6f284a2ce7.

Reported-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>

[Build fixes for machines that don't use the generic dma-coherence.h]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-24 17:01:49 +00:00
Daniel Mack
9c67cd1460 ide: remove static prototypes from include/asm-mips/mach-au1x00/au1xxx_ide.h
This patch removes the static prototypes from the au1xxx_ide.h, some of
them were not even implemented. Also, they caused build breakage since
they differed from the functions actually implemented in
drivers/ide/mips/au1xxx-ide.c.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2007-03-17 21:57:24 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
49edd098e2 [MIPS] Lockdep: Fix recursion bug.
trace_hardirqs_off -> atomic_inc -> local_irq_restore -> trace_hardirqs_off

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-17 01:03:29 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
46230aa6ea [MIPS] RTLX: Handle copy_*_user return values.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-17 01:03:29 +00:00
Atsushi Nemoto
53dc80287d [MIPS] FPU ownership management & preemption fixes
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-17 01:03:26 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
f1dbf8e718 [MIPS] IP27, IP35: Fix warnings.
include/asm-mips/mach-ip27/dma-coherence.h:22: warning: 'plat_map_dma_mem' defined but not used
include/asm-mips/mach-ip27/dma-coherence.h:41: warning: 'plat_unmap_dma_mem' defined but not used
include/asm-mips/mach-ip32/dma-coherence.h:30: warning: 'plat_map_dma_mem' defined but not used
include/asm-mips/mach-ip32/dma-coherence.h:63: warning: 'plat_unmap_dma_mem' defined but not used

These functions are meant to be inlined anyway.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-17 01:03:24 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
bb9b813bb6 [MIPS] Sibyte: Fix ZBbus profiler
o Fix build error.
 o Handle error returns.
 o Deal with signals received while sleeping.
 o Don't allow to be selected when we're not building the directory with
   the driver anyway.
 o Coding style cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-09 20:27:31 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
012390517e [MIPS] ISA: Fix typo
Lost CONFIG_ prefix discovered by Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-08 01:10:30 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
08253b39f8 [MIPS] Wire up ioprio_set and ioprio_get.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-07 00:07:18 +00:00
Dave Johnson
d52c2d5a62 [MIPS] Fix __raw_read_trylock() to allow multiple readers
A deadlock can occur for mixed irq and non-irq rwlock readers if a 2nd
reader attempts to take lock by looping around __raw_read_trylock().

Signed-off-by: Dave Johnson <djohnson+linux-mips@sw.starentnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-07 00:07:17 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
d0c91ae2bb [MIPS] Export __copy_user_inatomic.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-07 00:07:17 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
b961153be9 [MIPS] R2 bitops compile fix for gcc < 4.0.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-07 00:07:17 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
b3920590b5 [MIPS] SMTC: Add fordward declarations for mm_struct and task_struct.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-07 00:07:16 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
32fac80be6 [MIPS] SMTC: <asm/mips_mt.h> must include <linux/cpumask.h>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-07 00:07:15 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
22e651c6ae [MIPS] SMTC: <asm/smtc_ipi.h> must include <linux/spinlock.h>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-07 00:07:15 +00:00
Con Kolivas
69f7c0a1be [PATCH] sched: remove SMT nice
Remove the SMT-nice feature which idles sibling cpus on SMT cpus to
facilitiate nice working properly where cpu power is shared.  The idling of
cpus in the presence of runnable tasks is considered too fragile, easy to
break with outside code, and the complexity of managing this system if an
architecture comes along with many logical cores sharing cpu power will be
unworkable.

Remove the associated per_cpu_gain variable in sched_domains used only by
this code.

Also:

  The reason is that with dynticks enabled, this code breaks without yet
  further tweaks so dynticks brought on the rapid demise of this code.  So
  either we tweak this code or kill it off entirely.  It was Ingo's preference
  to kill it off.  Either way this needs to happen for 2.6.21 since dynticks
  has gone in.

Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-05 07:57:51 -08:00
Ralf Baechle
a9b6590ced [MIPS] DMA: Fix a bunch of warnings due to missing inline keywords.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-04 19:02:39 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
07c0d7437c [MIPS] RM: It should be #ifdef CONFIG_FOO not #if CONFIG_FOO ...
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-04 19:02:38 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
36a885306f [MIPS] Fix and cleanup the mess that a dozen prom_printf variants are.
early_printk is a so much saner thing.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-04 19:02:37 +00:00
Atsushi Nemoto
a0574e0480 [MIPS] Convert to RTC-class ds1742 driver
The generic rtc-ds1742 driver can be used for RBTX4927 and JMR3927
(with __swizzle_addr trick).  This patch also removes MIPS local
DS1742 stuff.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-04 19:02:34 +00:00
Thomas Bogendoerfer
49fa3c0869 [MIPS] SNI: Fix mc146818_decode_year
Big endian RMs uses a different mc146818_decode_year than little endian RMs
Correct mc146818_decode_year for years before 2000

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-04 19:02:31 +00:00
Robert P. J. Day
40139bd459 [MIPS] Remove unreferenced _IOC_SLMASK macro in ioctl.h.
Delete the definition of the apparently unreferenced macro _IOC_SLMASK.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-26 23:06:06 +00:00
Thomas Bogendoerfer
f13cc01d8d [MIPS] SNI: MIPS_CPU_IRQ_BASE cleanup
Use MIPS_CPU_IRQ_BASE instead of own define.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-26 23:06:06 +00:00
Franck Bui-Huu
9693a85378 [MIPS] Add basic SMARTMIPS ASE support
This patch adds trivial support for SMARTMIPS extension. This extension
is currently implemented by 4KS[CD] CPUs.

Basically it saves/restores ACX register, which is part of the SMARTMIPS
ASE, when needed. This patch does *not* add any support for Smartmips MMU
features.

Futhermore this patch does not add explicit support for 4KS[CD] CPUs since
they are respectively mips32 and mips32r2 compliant.  So with the current
processor configuration, a platform that has such CPUs needs to select
both configs:

	CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS
	SYS_HAS_CPU_MIPS32_R[12]

This is due to the processor configuration which is mixing up all the
architecture variants and the processor types.

The drawback of this, is that we currently pass '-march=mips32' option to
gcc when building a kernel instead of '-march=4ksc' for 4KSC case. This
can lead to a kernel image a little bit bigger than required.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-22 00:50:44 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
e03b526932 [MIPS] Fixup copy_from_user_inatomic
From the 01408c4939 log message:

The problem is that when we write to a file, the copy from userspace to
pagecache is first done with preemption disabled, so if the source
address is not immediately available the copy fails *and* *zeros* *the*
*destination*.

This is a problem because a concurrent read (which admittedly is an odd
thing to do) might see zeros rather that was there before the write, or
what was there after, or some mixture of the two (any of these being a
reasonable thing to see).

If the copy did fail, it will immediately be retried with preemption
re-enabled so any transient problem with accessing the source won't
cause an error.

The first copying does not need to zero any uncopied bytes, and doing
so causes the problem.  It uses copy_from_user_atomic rather than
copy_from_user so the simple expedient is to change copy_from_user_atomic
to *not* zero out bytes on failure.

< --- end cite --- >

This patch finally implements at least a not so pretty solution by
duplicating the relevant part of __copy_user.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-20 01:26:42 +00:00
Atsushi Nemoto
269dd2b252 [MIPS] Fix struct sigcontext for N32 userland
The kernel use 64-bit for sc_regs[0], and both N32/N64 userland
expects it was 64-bit.  But size of 'long' on N32 is actually 32-bit.
So this definition make some confusion.  Use __u32 and __u64 for
N32/N64 sigcontext to get rid of this confusion.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-20 01:26:42 +00:00