linux.git/arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c, branch v2.6.35-rc4

MIPS: Preliminary VDSO

2010-04-12T16:26:14+00:00

This is a preliminary patch to add a vdso to all user processes.  Still
missing are ELF headers and .eh_frame information.  But it is enough to
allow us to move signal trampolines off of the stack.  Note that emulation
of branch delay slots in the FPU emulator still requires the stack.

We allocate a single page (the vdso) and write all possible signal
trampolines into it.  The stack is moved down by one page and the vdso is
mapped into this space.

Signed-off-by: David Daney 
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/975/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

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

Add generic sys_olduname()

2010-03-12T23:52:32+00:00

Add generic implementations of the old and really old uname system calls.
Note that sh only implements sys_olduname but not sys_oldolduname, but I'm
not going to bother with another ifdef for that special case.

m32r implemented an old uname but never wired it up, so kill it, too.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: James Morris 
Cc: Andreas Schwab 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Add generic sys_ipc wrapper

2010-03-12T23:52:32+00:00

Add a generic implementation of the ipc demultiplexer syscall.  Except for
s390 and sparc64 all implementations of the sys_ipc are nearly identical.

There are slight differences in the types of the parameters, where mips
and powerpc as the only 64-bit architectures with sys_ipc use unsigned
long for the "third" argument as it gets casted to a pointer later, while
it traditionally is an "int" like most other paramters.  frv goes even
further and uses unsigned long for all parameters execept for "ptr" which
is a pointer type everywhere.  The change from int to unsigned long for
"third" and back to "int" for the others on frv should be fine due to the
in-register calling conventions for syscalls (we already had a similar
issue with the generic sys_ptrace), but I'd prefer to have the arch
maintainers looks over this in details.

Except for that h8300, m68k and m68knommu lack an impplementation of the
semtimedop sub call which this patch adds, and various architectures have
gets used - at least on i386 it seems superflous as the compat code on
x86-64 and ia64 doesn't even bother to implement it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_ipc to sys_ni.c]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: James Morris 
Cc: Andreas Schwab 
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fix broken aliasing checks for MAP_FIXED on sparc32, mips, arm and sh

2009-12-11T11:44:59+00:00

We want addr - (pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT) consistently coloured...

Acked-by: Paul Mundt 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Unify sys_mmap*

2009-12-11T11:44:29+00:00

New helper - sys_mmap_pgoff(); switch syscalls to using it.

Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

MIPS: Fix MIPS I build.

2009-12-02T18:09:51+00:00

Broken by d63c63e889bbeeaa461a8addf1245f89f3ce4ece (lmo) rsp.
f1e39a4a616cd9981a9decfd5332fd07a01abb8b (kernel.org).

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/746/

MIPS: Rewrite sysmips(MIPS_ATOMIC_SET, ...) in C with inline assembler

2009-09-17T18:07:49+00:00

This way it doesn't have to use CONFIG_CPU_HAS_LLSC anymore.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: CVE-2009-0029: Enable syscall wrappers.

2009-02-27T17:56:35+00:00

Thanks to David Daney helping with debugging and testing.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: David Daney

Remove asm/a.out.h files for all architectures without a.out support.

2008-09-06T18:30:24+00:00

This patch also includes the required removal of (unused) inclusion of
 's in the arch/ code for these
architectures.

[dwmw2: updated for 2.6.27-rc]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse