user/sven/linux.git/arch/alpha, branch v3.6.9

alpha: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

2012-10-12T20:50:31Z

commit 4c94cada48f7c660eca582be6032427a5e367117 upstream. In the old times, the whole idle task was considered as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical section have been added even in the code of some architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example. So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU in low power mode. This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in idle in order to complete grace periods. Add this missing pair of calls in the Alpha's idle loop. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Tested-by: Michael Cree Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: alpha Cc: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

alpha: Fix fall-out from disintegrating asm/system.h

2012-08-19T15:41:19Z

Commit ec2212088c42 ("Disintegrate asm/system.h for Alpha") removed asm/system.h however arch/alpha/oprofile/common.c requires definitions that were shifted from asm/system.h to asm/special_insns.h. Include that. Signed-off-by: Michael Cree Acked-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Redefine ATOMIC_INIT and ATOMIC64_INIT to drop the casts

2012-08-19T15:41:19Z

The following build error occurred during an alpha build: net/core/sock.c:274:36: error: initializer element is not constant Dave Anglin says: > Here is the line in sock.i: > > struct static_key memalloc_socks = ((struct static_key) { .enabled = > ((atomic_t) { (0) }) }); The above line contains two compound literals. It also uses a designated initializer to initialize the field enabled. A compound literal is not a constant expression. The location of the above statement isn't fully clear, but if a compound literal occurs outside the body of a function, the initializer list must consist of constant expressions. Cc: Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Michael Cree Acked-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: fix fpu.h usage in userspace

2012-08-19T15:41:19Z

After commit ec2212088c42 ("Disintegrate asm/system.h for Alpha"), the fpu.h header which we install for userland started depending on special_insns.h which is not installed. However, fpu.h only uses that for __KERNEL__ code, so protect the inclusion the same way to avoid build breakage in glibc: /usr/include/asm/fpu.h:4:31: fatal error: asm/special_insns.h: No such file or directory Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger Signed-off-by: Michael Cree Acked-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha/mm/fault.c: Port OOM changes to do_page_fault

2012-08-19T15:41:19Z

Commit d065bd810b6d ("mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer") and 37b23e0525d3 ("x86,mm: make pagefault killable") introduced changes into the x86 pagefault handler for making the page fault handler retryable as well as killable. These changes reduce the mmap_sem hold time, which is crucial during OOM killer invocation. Port these changes to ALPHA. Signed-off-by: Mohd. Faris Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul Acked-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Michael Cree Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: take kernel_execve() out of entry.S

2012-08-19T15:41:19Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Michael Cree Acked-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: take a bunch of syscalls into osf_sys.c

2012-08-19T15:41:19Z

New helper: current_thread_info(). Allows to do a bunch of odd syscalls in C. While we are at it, there had never been a reason to do osf_getpriority() in assembler. We also get "namespace"-aware (read: consistent with getuid(2), etc.) behaviour from getx?id() syscalls now. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Michael Cree Acked-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: Use new generic strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user()

2012-08-19T15:41:18Z

Similar to x86/sparc/powerpc implementations except: 1) we implement an extremely efficient has_zero()/find_zero() sequence with both prep_zero_mask() and create_zero_mask() no-operations. 2) Our output from prep_zero_mask() differs in that only the lowest eight bits are used to represent the zero bytes nevertheless it can be safely ORed with other similar masks from prep_zero_mask() and forms input to create_zero_mask(), the two fundamental properties prep_zero_mask() must satisfy. Tests on EV67 and EV68 CPUs revealed that the generic code is essentially as fast (to within 0.5% of CPU cycles) of the old Alpha specific code for large quadword-aligned strings, despite the 30% extra CPU instructions executed. In contrast, the generic code for unaligned strings is substantially slower (by more than a factor of 3) than the old Alpha specific code. Signed-off-by: Michael Cree Acked-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: Wire up cross memory attach syscalls

2012-08-19T15:41:18Z

Add sys_process_vm_readv and sys_process_vm_writev to Alpha. Signed-off-by: Michael Cree Acked-by: Matt Turner Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: Don't export SOCK_NONBLOCK to user space.

2012-08-19T15:41:18Z

Currently we export SOCK_NONBLOCK to user space but that conflicts with the definition from glibc leading to compilation errors in user programs (e.g. see Debian bug #658460). The generic socket.h restricts the definition of SOCK_NONBLOCK to the kernel, as does the MIPS specific socket.h, so let's do the same on Alpha. Signed-off-by: Michael Cree Acked-by: Matt Turner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds