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<title>linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel, branch v2.6.21.7</title>
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<title>POWERPC: Fix subtle FP state corruption bug in signal return on SMP</title>
<updated>2007-08-04T16:10:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mackerras</name>
<email>paulus@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-06-26T10:10:12+00:00</published>
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This fixes a bug which can cause corruption of the floating-point state
on return from a signal handler.  If we have a signal handler that has
used the floating-point registers, and it happens to context-switch to
another task while copying the interrupted floating-point state from the
user stack into the thread struct (e.g. because of a page fault, or
because it gets preempted), the context switch code will think that the
FP registers contain valid FP state that needs to be copied into the
thread_struct, and will thus overwrite the values that the signal return
code has put into the thread_struct.

This can occur because we clear the MSR bits that indicate the presence
of valid FP state after copying the state into the thread_struct.  To fix
this we just move the clearing of the MSR bits to before the copy.  A
similar potential problem also occurs with the Altivec state, and this
fixes that in the same way.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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This fixes a bug which can cause corruption of the floating-point state
on return from a signal handler.  If we have a signal handler that has
used the floating-point registers, and it happens to context-switch to
another task while copying the interrupted floating-point state from the
user stack into the thread struct (e.g. because of a page fault, or
because it gets preempted), the context switch code will think that the
FP registers contain valid FP state that needs to be copied into the
thread_struct, and will thus overwrite the values that the signal return
code has put into the thread_struct.

This can occur because we clear the MSR bits that indicate the presence
of valid FP state after copying the state into the thread_struct.  To fix
this we just move the clearing of the MSR bits to before the copy.  A
similar potential problem also occurs with the Altivec state, and this
fixes that in the same way.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Fix atomicity of TIF update in flush_thread()</title>
<updated>2007-03-16T05:37:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mathieu Desnoyers</name>
<email>mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-10T08:23:03+00:00</published>
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Fix atomicity of TIF update in flush_thread() for powerpc

Fixes it correctly with *_ti_thread_flag.

Race :

parent process executing :
sys_ptrace()
 (lock_kernel())
 (ptrace_get_task_struct(pid))
 arch_ptrace()
   ptrace_detach()
     ptrace_disable(child);
       clear_singlestep(child);
         clear_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_SINGLESTEP);
         (which clears the TIF_SINGLESTEP flag atomically from a different
          process)
 (put_task_struct(child))
 (unlock_kernel())

And at the same time, in the child process :
sys_execve()
 do_execve()
   search_binary_handler()
     load_elf_binary()
       flush_old_exec()
         flush_thread()
           doing a non-atomic thread flag update

Applies on 2.6.20.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Fix atomicity of TIF update in flush_thread() for powerpc

Fixes it correctly with *_ti_thread_flag.

Race :

parent process executing :
sys_ptrace()
 (lock_kernel())
 (ptrace_get_task_struct(pid))
 arch_ptrace()
   ptrace_detach()
     ptrace_disable(child);
       clear_singlestep(child);
         clear_tsk_thread_flag(child, TIF_SINGLESTEP);
         (which clears the TIF_SINGLESTEP flag atomically from a different
          process)
 (put_task_struct(child))
 (unlock_kernel())

And at the same time, in the child process :
sys_execve()
 do_execve()
   search_binary_handler()
     load_elf_binary()
       flush_old_exec()
         flush_thread()
           doing a non-atomic thread flag update

Applies on 2.6.20.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] constant should be long</title>
<updated>2007-03-14T22:27:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ftp.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-14T09:18:30+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Fix warning in prom_parse.c of_irq_map_oldworld()</title>
<updated>2007-03-07T17:09:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-07T10:27:37+00:00</published>
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This function spews a warning due to possible use of an uninitialized
variable. This can happen on broken device-trees or when called with
a NULL argument. Makes ure we properly fail instead.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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This function spews a warning due to possible use of an uninitialized
variable. This can happen on broken device-trees or when called with
a NULL argument. Makes ure we properly fail instead.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<title>[POWERPC] No DEEPNAP on 970MP 1.0</title>
<updated>2007-03-07T17:09:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Olof Johansson</name>
<email>olof@lixom.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-26T06:35:14+00:00</published>
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970MP rev 1.0 is reported to have nonworking DEEPNAP support, we've had
bug reports of lockups on those machines. Appearantly Apple used them
on some dual-core dual-cpu systems. Rev 1.1 is OK, and that's the one
that all 4-way systems seem to use.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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970MP rev 1.0 is reported to have nonworking DEEPNAP support, we've had
bug reports of lockups on those machines. Appearantly Apple used them
on some dual-core dual-cpu systems. Rev 1.1 is OK, and that's the one
that all 4-way systems seem to use.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] msi: sanely support hardware level msi disabling</title>
<updated>2007-03-05T15:57:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-05T08:30:07+00:00</published>
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In some cases when we are not using msi we need a way to ensure that the
hardware does not have an msi capability enabled.  Currently the code has been
calling disable_msi_mode to try and achieve that.  However disable_msi_mode
has several other side effects and is only available when msi support is
compiled in so it isn't really appropriate.

Instead this patch implements pci_msi_off which disables all msi and msix
capabilities unconditionally with no additional side effects.

pci_disable_device was redundantly clearing the bus master enable flag and
clearing the msi enable bit.  A device that is not allowed to perform bus
mastering operations cannot generate intx or msi interrupt messages as those
are essentially a special case of dma, and require bus mastering.  So the call
in pci_disable_device to disable msi capabilities was redundant.

quirk_pcie_pxh also called disable_msi_mode and is updated to use pci_msi_off.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In some cases when we are not using msi we need a way to ensure that the
hardware does not have an msi capability enabled.  Currently the code has been
calling disable_msi_mode to try and achieve that.  However disable_msi_mode
has several other side effects and is only available when msi support is
compiled in so it isn't really appropriate.

Instead this patch implements pci_msi_off which disables all msi and msix
capabilities unconditionally with no additional side effects.

pci_disable_device was redundantly clearing the bus master enable flag and
clearing the msi enable bit.  A device that is not allowed to perform bus
mastering operations cannot generate intx or msi interrupt messages as those
are essentially a special case of dma, and require bus mastering.  So the call
in pci_disable_device to disable msi capabilities was redundant.

quirk_pcie_pxh also called disable_msi_mode and is updated to use pci_msi_off.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>backlight: Separate backlight properties from backlight ops pointers</title>
<updated>2007-02-20T09:26:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Purdie</name>
<email>rpurdie@rpsys.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-10T23:07:48+00:00</published>
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Per device data such as brightness belongs to the indivdual device
and should therefore be separate from the the backlight operation
function pointers. This patch splits the two types of data and
allows simplifcation of some code.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie &lt;rpurdie@rpsys.net&gt;
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Per device data such as brightness belongs to the indivdual device
and should therefore be separate from the the backlight operation
function pointers. This patch splits the two types of data and
allows simplifcation of some code.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie &lt;rpurdie@rpsys.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>backlight: Fix external uses of backlight internal semaphore</title>
<updated>2007-02-20T08:38:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Purdie</name>
<email>rpurdie@rpsys.net</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-08T22:25:09+00:00</published>
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backlight_device-&gt;sem has a very specific use as documented in the
header file. The external users of this are using it for a different
reason, to serialise access to the update_status() method.

backlight users were supposed to implement their own internal
serialisation of update_status() if needed but everyone is doing
things differently and incorrectly. Therefore add a global mutex to
take care of serialisation for everyone, once and for all.

Locking for get_brightness remains optional since most users don't
need it.

Also update the lcd class in a similar way.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie &lt;rpurdie@rpsys.net&gt;
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backlight_device-&gt;sem has a very specific use as documented in the
header file. The external users of this are using it for a different
reason, to serialise access to the update_status() method.

backlight users were supposed to implement their own internal
serialisation of update_status() if needed but everyone is doing
things differently and incorrectly. Therefore add a global mutex to
take care of serialisation for everyone, once and for all.

Locking for get_brightness remains optional since most users don't
need it.

Also update the lcd class in a similar way.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie &lt;rpurdie@rpsys.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial</title>
<updated>2007-02-19T21:29:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-19T21:29:02+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt update.
  arch/cris: typo in KERN_INFO
  Storage class should be before const qualifier
  kernel/printk.c: comment fix
  update I/O sched Kconfig help texts - CFQ is now default, not AS.
  Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README
  kbuild: more doc. cleanups
  doc: make doc. for maxcpus= more visible
  drivers/net/eexpress.c: remove duplicate comment
  add a help text for BLK_DEV_GENERIC
  correct a dead URL in the IP_MULTICAST help text
  fix the BAYCOM_SER_HDX help text
  fix SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC help text
  trivial documentation patch for platform.txt
  Fix typos concerning hierarchy
  Fix comment typo "spin_lock_irqrestore".
  Fix misspellings of "agressive".
  drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c: trivial typo patch
  Correct trivial typo in log2.h.
  Remove useless FIND_FIRST_BIT() macro from cardbus.c.
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt update.
  arch/cris: typo in KERN_INFO
  Storage class should be before const qualifier
  kernel/printk.c: comment fix
  update I/O sched Kconfig help texts - CFQ is now default, not AS.
  Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README
  kbuild: more doc. cleanups
  doc: make doc. for maxcpus= more visible
  drivers/net/eexpress.c: remove duplicate comment
  add a help text for BLK_DEV_GENERIC
  correct a dead URL in the IP_MULTICAST help text
  fix the BAYCOM_SER_HDX help text
  fix SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC help text
  trivial documentation patch for platform.txt
  Fix typos concerning hierarchy
  Fix comment typo "spin_lock_irqrestore".
  Fix misspellings of "agressive".
  drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c: trivial typo patch
  Correct trivial typo in log2.h.
  Remove useless FIND_FIRST_BIT() macro from cardbus.c.
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Storage class should be before const qualifier</title>
<updated>2007-02-17T19:11:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobias Klauser</name>
<email>tklauser@distanz.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-17T19:11:19+00:00</published>
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The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5:

The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the
beginning of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an
obsolescent feature.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5:

The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the
beginning of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an
obsolescent feature.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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