kernel.git/arch/frv/include/asm, branch linux-2.6.32.y

frv: set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN

2010-07-05T18:10:49Z

commit 69dcf3db03626c4f18de624e8632454ea12ff260 upstream. Architectures that handle DMA-non-coherent memory need to set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to make sure that kmalloc'ed buffer is DMA-safe: the buffer doesn't share a cache with the others. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori Acked-by: David Howells Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

FDPIC: Respect PT_GNU_STACK exec protection markings when creating NOMMU stack

2010-02-09T12:50:49Z

commit 04e4f2b18c8de1389d1e00fef0f42a8099910daf upstream. The current code will load the stack size and protection markings, but then only use the markings in the MMU code path. The NOMMU code path always passes PROT_EXEC to the mmap() call. While this doesn't matter to most people whilst the code is running, it will cause a pointless icache flush when starting every FDPIC application. Typically this icache flush will be of a region on the order of 128KB in size, or may be the entire icache, depending on the facilities available on the CPU. In the case where the arch default behaviour seems to be desired (EXSTACK_DEFAULT), we probe VM_STACK_FLAGS for VM_EXEC to determine whether we should be setting PROT_EXEC or not. For arches that support an MPU (Memory Protection Unit - an MMU without the virtual mapping capability), setting PROT_EXEC or not will make an important difference. It should be noted that this change also affects the executability of the brk region, since ELF-FDPIC has that share with the stack. However, this is probably irrelevant as NOMMU programs aren't likely to use the brk region, preferring instead allocation via mmap(). Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

FRV: Use asm/generic-hardirq.h

2009-09-23T17:15:21Z

Use asm/generic-hardirq.h to build asm/hardirq.h and also remove the unused idle_timestamp field in irq_cpustat whilst we're at it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

misc: remove redundant start_kernel prototypes

2009-09-23T17:05:22Z

Impact: cleanup No need for redeclaration. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove duplicate asm/mman.h files

2009-09-22T14:17:42Z

A number of architectures have identical asm/mman.h files so they can all be merged by using the new generic file. The remaining asm/mman.h files are substantially different from each other. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions

2009-09-22T14:17:41Z

Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that will look like anonymous memory to user space. This is accomplished by using a file on the internal vfsmount. MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it. The region will behave the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages. The patch also adds the MAP_STACK flag, which was previously defined only on some architectures but not on others. Since MAP_STACK is meant to be a hint only, architectures can define it without assigning a specific meaning to it. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Eric B Munson Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events

2009-09-21T12:28:04Z

Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Paul Mackerras Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: David Howells Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2009-08-13T00:44:53Z

Conflicts: arch/microblaze/include/asm/socket.h

net: implement a SO_DOMAIN getsockoption

2009-08-05T20:02:57Z

This sockopt goes in line with SO_TYPE and SO_PROTOCOL. It makes it possible for userspace programs to pass around file descriptors — I am referring to arguments-to-functions, but it may even work for the fd passing over UNIX sockets — without needing to also pass the auxiliary information (PF_INET6/IPPROTO_TCP). Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: implement a SO_PROTOCOL getsockoption

2009-08-05T20:02:56Z

Similar to SO_TYPE returning the socket type, SO_PROTOCOL allows to retrieve the protocol used with a given socket. I am not quite sure why we have that-many copies of socket.h, and why the values are not the same on all arches either, but for where hex numbers dominate, I use 0x1029 for SO_PROTOCOL as that seems to be the next free unused number across a bunch of operating systems, or so Google results make me want to believe. SO_PROTOCOL for others just uses the next free Linux number, 38. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt Signed-off-by: David S. Miller