user/sven/linux.git/arch/arc/include/uapi, branch v4.9.254

ARC: syscall for userspace cmpxchg assist

2016-10-24T16:24:26Z

Older ARC700 cores (ARC750 specifically) lack instructions to implement atomic r-w-w. This is problematic for userspace libraries such as NPTL which need atomic primitives. So enable them by providing kernel assist. This is costly but really the only sane soluton (othern than tight spinning using the otherwise availiable atomic exchange EX instruciton). Good thing is there are only a few of these cores running Linux out in the wild. This only works on UP systems. Reviewed-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: Support syscall ABI v4

2016-08-19T17:44:34Z

The syscall ABI includes the gcc functional calling ABI since a syscall implies userland caller and kernel callee. The current gcc ABI (v3) for ARCv2 ISA required 64-bit data be passed in even-odd register pairs, (potentially punching reg holes when passing such values as args). This was partly driven by the fact that the double-word LDD/STD instructions in ARCv2 expect the register alignment and thus gcc forcing this avoids extra MOV at the cost of a few unused register (which we have plenty anyways). This however was rejected as part of upstreaming gcc port to HS. So the new ABI v4 doesn't enforce the even-odd reg restriction. Do note that for ARCompact ISA builds v3 and v4 are practically the same in terms of gcc code generation. In terms of change management, we infer the new ABI if gcc 6.x onwards is used for building the kernel. This also needs a stable backport to enable older kernels to work with new tools/user-space Cc: Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

Fix typos

2016-05-30T04:37:32Z

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

Merge tag 'asm-generic-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

2016-05-24T22:24:37Z

Pull asm-generic cleanup from Arnd Bergmann: "I have only one patch for asm-generic in this release, this one is from James Hogan and updates the generic system call table for renameat2 so we don't need to provide both renameat and renameat2 in newly added architectures" * tag 'asm-generic-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: asm-generic: Drop renameat syscall from default list

ARC: clean out UAPI byteorder.h clean off Kconfig symbol

2016-05-09T04:02:31Z

UAPI header should not use Kconfig items Use __BIG_ENDIAN__ defined as a compiler intrinsic Signed-off-by: Noam Camus [vgupta: fix changelog] Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

asm-generic: Drop renameat syscall from default list

2016-05-04T22:42:21Z

The newer renameat2 syscall provides all the functionality provided by the renameat syscall and adds flags, so future architectures won't need to include renameat. Therefore drop the renameat syscall from the generic syscall list unless __ARCH_WANT_RENAMEAT is defined by the architecture's unistd.h prior to including asm-generic/unistd.h, and adjust all architectures using the generic syscall list to define it so that no in-tree architectures are affected. Signed-off-by: James Hogan Acked-by: Vineet Gupta Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Mark Salter Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org Cc: Richard Kuo Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: linux@lists.openrisc.net Cc: Chen Liqin Cc: Lennox Wu Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: Ley Foon Tan Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

ARC: mm: use generic macros _BITUL()/_AC()

2015-10-28T14:01:05Z

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: Make pt_regs regs unsigned

2015-08-05T06:18:21Z

KGDB fails to build after f51e2f191112 ("ARC: make sure instruction_pointer() returns unsigned value") The hack to force one specific reg to unsigned backfired. There's no reason to keep the regs signed after all. | CC arch/arc/kernel/kgdb.o |../arch/arc/kernel/kgdb.c: In function 'kgdb_trap': | ../arch/arc/kernel/kgdb.c:180:29: error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment | instruction_pointer(regs) -= BREAK_INSTR_SIZE; Reported-by: Yuriy Kolerov Fixes: f51e2f191112 ("ARC: make sure instruction_pointer() returns unsigned value") Cc: Alexey Brodkin Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: mm: document system mem map clearly

2015-06-19T12:39:29Z

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: Implement ptrace(PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA)

2014-06-26T04:44:08Z

This patch adds implementation of GET_THREAD_AREA ptrace request type. This is required by GDB to debug NPTL applications. Signed-off-by: Anton Kolesov Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta