linux.git/arch/arm/kernel/process.c, branch v2.6.35-rc4

ARM: fix build error in arch/arm/kernel/process.c

2010-04-21T07:45:21+00:00

/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccJ3ssZW.s:1952: Error: can't resolve `.text' {.text section} - `.LFB1077'

This is caused because:

	.section .data
	.section .text
	.section .text
	.previous

does not return us to the .text section, but the .data section; this
makes use of .previous dangerous if the ordering of previous sections
is not known.

Fix up the other users of .previous; .pushsection and .popsection are
a safer pairing to use than .section and .previous.

Signed-off-by: Russell King

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

ARM: 5868/1: ARM: fix "BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code"

2010-01-08T16:14:29+00:00

Fix the following warning, which appears when the register dump for a
faulting process is printed in a kernel with SMP, DEBUG_PREEMPT, and
DEBUG_USER (with user_debug=31) enabled:

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: init/1
caller is __show_regs+0x18/0x234
Backtrace:
[] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x114) from [] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c)
 r6:c781a000 r5:c0157544 r4:00000001 r3:00000000
[] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [] (debug_smp_processor_id+0xc4/0xf8)
[] (debug_smp_processor_id+0x0/0xf8) from [] (__show_regs+0x18/0x234)
 r6:c781bfb0 r5:00000000 r4:c781bfb0 r3:00000000
[] (__show_regs+0x0/0x234) from [] (show_regs+0x40/0x50)
[] (show_regs+0x0/0x50) from [] (__do_user_fault+0x5c/0xa4)
 r4:c781c000 r3:00000000
[] (__do_user_fault+0x0/0xa4) from [] (do_page_fault+0x1b4/0x1e4)
 r7:00000000 r6:00010000 r5:c781bfb0 r4:c781c000
[] (do_page_fault+0x0/0x1e4) from [] (do_DataAbort+0x3c/0xa0)
[] (do_DataAbort+0x0/0xa0) from [] (ret_from_exception+0x0/0x10)

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: Convert VFP/Crunch/XscaleCP thread_release() to exit_thread()

2009-12-18T14:53:41+00:00

This avoids races in the VFP code where the dead thread may have
state on another CPU.  By moving this code to exit_thread(), we
will be running as the thread, and therefore be running on the
current CPU.

This means that we can ensure that the only local state is accessed
in the thread notifiers.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

ARM: 5759/1: Add register information of threads to coredump

2009-10-14T09:33:05+00:00

Defines ELF_CORE_COPY_TASK_REGS so that CPU register information
of every thread is included in coredump. Without this, only the faulting
thread is coredumped.

Cc: Roger Quadros 
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg 
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

Thumb-2: Implementation of the unified start-up and exceptions code

2009-07-24T11:32:54+00:00

This patch implements the ARM/Thumb-2 unified kernel start-up and
exception handling code.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

[ARM] idle: clean up pm_idle calling, obey hlt_counter

2009-06-22T21:34:55+00:00

pm_idle is used by infrastructure (eg, cpuidle) which expects architectures
to call it in a certain way.  Arrange for ARM to follow x86's lead on this
and call pm_idle() with interrupts already disabled.  However, we expect
pm_idle() to enable interrupts before it returns.

Also, OMAP wants to be able to disable hlt-ing, so allow hlt_counter to
prevent all calls to pm_idle.

Signed-off-by: Russell King

[ARM] 5559/1: Limit the stack unwinding caused by a kthread exit

2009-06-19T15:44:23+00:00

When a kthread function returns, it branches to do_exit(). However, the
unwinding information isn't valid anymore and any stack trace caused by
do_exit() may be incorrect. This patch adds a kernel_thread_exit()
function and annotated with '.cantunwind' so that the unwinder stops
when reaching it.

Tested-by: Tony Lindgren 

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Russell King

Add core support for ARMv6/v7 big-endian

2009-05-30T13:00:18+00:00

Starting with ARMv6, the CPUs support the BE-8 variant of big-endian
(byte-invariant). This patch adds the core support:

- setting of the BE-8 mode via the CPSR.E register for both kernel and
  user threads
- big-endian page table walking
- REV used to rotate instructions read from memory during fault
  processing as they are still little-endian format
- Kconfig and Makefile support for BE-8. The --be8 option must be passed
  to the final linking stage to convert the instructions to
  little-endian

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

Simplify copy_thread()

2009-04-03T02:04:51+00:00

First argument unused since 2.3.11.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds