kernel.git/arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S, branch linux-2.6.28.y

Remove attribute((weak)) from sys_pipe/sys_pipe2

2009-01-18T18:43:51Z

commit 1134723e96f6e2abcf8bfd7a2d1c96fcc323ef35 upstream. Remove __attribute__((weak)) from common code sys_pipe implemantation. IA64, ALPHA, SUPERH (32bit) and SPARC (32bit) have own implemantations with the same name. Just rename them. For sys_pipe2 there is no architecture specific implementation. Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[IA64] Rationalize kernel mode alignment checking

2008-11-20T21:27:12Z

Itanium processors can handle some misaligned data accesses. They also provide a mode where all such accesses are forced to trap. The kernel was schizophrenic about use of this mode: * Base kernel code ran in permissive mode where the only traps generated were from those cases that the h/w could not handle. * Interrupt, syscall and trap code ran in strict mode where all unaligned accesses caused traps to the 0x5a00 unaligned reference vector. Use strict alignment checking throughout the kernel, but make sure that we continue to let user mode use more relaxed mode as the default. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] utrace use generic trace hook

2008-10-06T17:43:06Z

Make IA64 use generic trace hook in some paths. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] Wire up new system calls

2008-07-25T17:10:28Z

Six new system calls: signalfd4, eventfd2, epoll_create1, dup3, pipe2 and inotify_init1. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] pvops: paravirtualize entry.S

2008-05-27T22:08:01Z

paravirtualize ia64_swtich_to, ia64_leave_syscall and ia64_leave_kernel. They include sensitive or performance critical privileged instructions so that they need paravirtualization. To paravirtualize them by single source and multi compile they are converted into indirect jump. And define each pv instances. Cc: Keith Owens Cc: "Dong, Eddie" Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] trivial cleanup for entry.S

2008-05-14T22:56:09Z

This patch does: - make comment at next to resched check more robust - move "re-check" comments to next to where change predicate regs Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] fix interrupt masking for pending works on kernel leave

2008-05-14T22:55:35Z

[Bug-fix for "[BUG?][2.6.25-mm1] sleeping during IRQ disabled"] This patch does: - enable interrupts before calling schedule() as same as others, ex. x86 - enable interrupts during ia64_do_signal() and ia64_sync_krbs() - do_notify_resume_user() is still called with interrupts disabled, since we can take short path of fsys_mode if-statement quickly. - pfm_handle_work() is also called with interrupts disabled, since it can deal interrupt mask within itself. - fix/add some comments/notes Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] disable interrupts on exit of ia64_trace_syscall

2008-04-22T15:55:51Z

While testing with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y, I found that I occasionally get very huge system time in some threads. So I dug the issue and finally noticed that it was caused because of an interrupt which interrupt in the following window: > [arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S: (!CONFIG_PREEMPT && CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING)] > > ENTRY(ia64_leave_syscall) > : > (pUStk) rsm psr.i > cmp.eq pLvSys,p0=r0,r0 // pLvSys=1: leave from syscall > (pUStk) cmp.eq.unc p6,p0=r0,r0 // p6 <- pUStk > .work_processed_syscall: > adds r2=PT(LOADRS)+16,r12 > (pUStk) mov.m r22=ar.itc // fetch time at leave > adds r18=TI_FLAGS+IA64_TASK_SIZE,r13 > ;; > <<< window: from here >>> > (p6) ld4 r31=[r18] // load current_thread_info()->flags > ld8 r19=[r2],PT(B6)-PT(LOADRS) > adds r3=PT(AR_BSPSTORE)+16,r12 > ;; > mov r16=ar.bsp > ld8 r18=[r2],PT(R9)-PT(B6) > (p6) and r15=TIF_WORK_MASK,r31 // any work other than TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE? > ;; > ld8 r23=[r3],PT(R11)-PT(AR_BSPSTORE) > (p6) cmp4.ne.unc p6,p0=r15, r0 // any special work pending? > (p6) br.cond.spnt .work_pending_syscall > ;; > ld8 r9=[r2],PT(CR_IPSR)-PT(R9) > ld8 r11=[r3],PT(CR_IIP)-PT(R11) > (pNonSys) break 0 // bug check: we shouldn't be here if pNonSys is TRUE! > ;; > invala > <<< window: to here >>> > rsm psr.i | psr.ic // turn off interrupts and interruption collection If pUStk is true, it means we are going to return user mode, hence we fetch ar.itc to get time at leave from system. It seems that it is not possible to interrupt the window if pUStk is true, because interrupts are disabled early. And also disabling interrupt makes sense because it is safe for referring current_thread_info()->flags. However interrupting the window while pUStk is true was possible. The route was: ia64_trace_syscall -> .work_pending_syscall_end -> .work_processed_syscall Only in case entering the window from this route, interrupts are enabled during in the window even if pUStk is true. I suppose interrupts must be disabled here anyway if pUStk is true. I'm not sure but afraid that what kind of bad effect were there, other than crazy system time which I found. FYI, there was a commit 6f6d75825dc49b082906b84537b4df28293c2977 that points out a bug at same point(exit of ia64_trace_syscall) in 2006. It can be said that there was an another bug. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING (accurate cpu time accounting)

2008-02-20T20:55:37Z

This patch implements VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING for ia64, which enable us to use more accurate cpu time accounting. The VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is an item of kernel config, which s390 and powerpc arch have. By turning this config on, these archs change the mechanism of cpu time accounting from tick-sampling based one to state-transition based one. The state-transition based accounting is done by checking time (cycle counter in processor) at every state-transition point, such as entrance/exit of kernel, interrupt, softirq etc. The difference between point to point is the actual time consumed during in the state. There is no doubt about that this value is more accurate than that of tick-sampling based accounting. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

[IA64] Wire up timerfd_{create,settime,gettime} syscalls

2008-02-08T20:00:32Z

Add ia64 hooks for the new syscalls that were added in commit 4d672e7ac79b5ec5cdc90e450823441e20464691 Signed-off-by: Tony Luck