Export the global variable 'ppc_tb_freq', so that modules (like the Book-E
watchdog driver) can use it. To maintain consistency, ppc_proc_freq is
changed to a GPL-only export. This is okay, because any module that needs
this symbol should be an actual Linux driver, which must be GPL-licensed.
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Replace EXTRA_CFLAGS with ccflags-y and EXTRA_AFLAGS with asflags-y.
Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Use set_dma_ops and remove unused oddly-named temp pointer sd.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Release the TCE table as the XXX suggests, except on FW_FEATURE_ISERIES,
where the tables are allocated globally and reused.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The kernel doc for device_register (and device_initialize) very clearly
state to call put_device not kfree after calling, even on error.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The current check is wrong because it does not take the DMA offset intot
account, and in the case of a driver which doesn't actually support
64bits would falsely report that device as working.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The table offset is in entries, each of which imply a dma address of
an IOMMU page.
Also, we should check the device can reach the whole IOMMU table.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In this case, a device_node structure is stored in another structure that
is then freed without first decrementing the reference count of the
device_node structure.
The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r exists@
expression x;
identifier f;
position p1,p2;
@@
x@p1->f = \(of_find_node_by_path\|of_find_node_by_name\|of_find_node_by_phandle\|of_get_parent\|of_get_next_parent\|of_get_next_child\|of_find_compatible_node\|of_match_node\|of_find_node_by_type\|of_find_node_with_property\|of_find_matching_node\|of_parse_phandle\|of_node_get\)(...);
... when != of_node_put(x)
kfree@p2(x)
@script:python@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
@@
cocci.print_main("call",p1)
cocci.print_secs("free",p2)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Export the rtas_ibm_suspend_me() routine. This is needed to perform
partition migration in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Since powerpc uses -Werror on arch powerpc, the build was broken like
this:
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c: In function 'module_finalize':
arch/powerpc/kernel/module.c:66: error: unused variable 'err'
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With all the recent module loading cleanups, we've minimized the code
that sits under module_mutex, fixing various deadlocks and making it
possible to do most of the module loading in parallel.
However, that whole conversion totally missed the rather obscure code
that adds a new module to the list for BUG() handling. That code was
doubly obscure because (a) the code itself lives in lib/bugs.c (for
dubious reasons) and (b) it gets called from the architecture-specific
"module_finalize()" rather than from generic code.
Calling it from arch-specific code makes no sense what-so-ever to begin
with, and is now actively wrong since that code isn't protected by the
module loading lock any more.
So this commit moves the "module_bug_{finalize,cleanup}()" calls away
from the arch-specific code, and into the generic code - and in the
process protects it with the module_mutex so that the list operations
are now safe.
Future fixups:
- move the module list handling code into kernel/module.c where it
belongs.
- get rid of 'module_bug_list' and just use the regular list of modules
(called 'modules' - imagine that) that we already create and maintain
for other reasons.
Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The logic to distinguish marked instruction events from ordinary events
on PPC970 and derivatives was flawed. The result is that instruction
sampling didn't get enabled in the PMU for some marked instruction
events, so they would never trigger. This fixes it by adding the
appropriate break statements in the switch statement.
Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Make sigreturn zero regs->trap, make do_signal() do the same on all
paths. As it is, signal interrupting e.g. read() from fd 512 (==
ERESTARTSYS) with another signal getting unblocked when the first
handler finishes will lead to restart one insn earlier than it ought
to. Same for multiple signals with in-kernel handlers interrupting
that sucker at the same time. Same for multiple signals of any kind
interrupting that sucker on 64bit...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some platforms may want to override dma_set_mask() to take into
account some specific "features" such as the availability of
a direct-map window in addition to an iommu.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch removes all explicit tests for the TIF_32BIT flag
Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Neither lfs nor stfs touch the fpscr, so remove the restore/save of it
around them.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Since the cpu accounting code uses the hypervisor dispatch trace log
now when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING = y, the previous commit disabled
access to it via files in the /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dtl/ directory
in that case. This restores those files.
To do this, we now have a hook that the cpu accounting code will call
as it processes each entry from the hypervisor dispatch trace log.
The code in dtl.c now uses that to fill up its ring buffer, rather
than having the hypervisor fill the ring buffer directly.
This also fixes dtl_file_read() to handle overflow conditions a bit
better and adds a spinlock to ensure that race conditions (multiple
processes opening or reading the file concurrently) are handled
correctly.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Currently, when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is enabled, we use the
PURR register for measuring the user and system time used by
processes, as well as other related times such as hardirq and
softirq times. This turns out to be quite confusing for users
because it means that a program will often be measured as taking
less time when run on a multi-threaded processor (SMT2 or SMT4 mode)
than it does when run on a single-threaded processor (ST mode), even
though the program takes longer to finish. The discrepancy is
accounted for as stolen time, which is also confusing, particularly
when there are no other partitions running.
This changes the accounting to use the timebase instead, meaning that
the reported user and system times are the actual number of real-time
seconds that the program was executing on the processor thread,
regardless of which SMT mode the processor is in. Thus a program will
generally show greater user and system times when run on a
multi-threaded processor than on a single-threaded processor.
On pSeries systems on POWER5 or later processors, we measure the
stolen time (time when this partition wasn't running) using the
hypervisor dispatch trace log. We check for new entries in the
log on every entry from user mode and on every transition from
kernel process context to soft or hard IRQ context (i.e. when
account_system_vtime() gets called). So that we can correctly
distinguish time stolen from user time and time stolen from system
time, without having to check the log on every exit to user mode,
we store separate timestamps for exit to user mode and entry from
user mode.
On systems that have a SPURR (POWER6 and POWER7), we read the SPURR
in account_system_vtime() (as before), and then apportion the SPURR
ticks since the last time we read it between scaled user time and
scaled system time according to the relative proportions of user
time and system time over the same interval. This avoids having to
read the SPURR on every kernel entry and exit. On systems that have
PURR but not SPURR (i.e., POWER5), we do the same using the PURR
rather than the SPURR.
This disables the DTL user interface in /sys/debug/kernel/powerpc/dtl
for now since it conflicts with the use of the dispatch trace log
by the time accounting code.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This arranges for the lppaca structs for most cpus to be dynamically
allocated in the same manner as the paca structs. If we don't include
support for legacy iSeries, only the first lppaca is statically
allocated; the rest are dynamically allocated. If we include legacy
iSeries support, then we statically allocate the first 64 lppaca
structs, since the iSeries hypervisor requires that the lppaca
structs be present in the data section of the kernel image, but
legacy iSeries supports at most 64 cpus.
With CONFIG_NR_CPUS, the kernel image size for a typical pSeries config
went from:
text data bss dec hex filename
9524478 4734564 8469944 22728986 15ad11a ../test-1024/vmlinux
to:
text data bss dec hex filename
9524482 3751508 8469944 21745934 14bd10e ../test-1024/vmlinux
a reduction of 983052 bytes overall.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Currently we have the lppaca structs as a simple array of NR_CPUS
entries, taking up space in the data section of the kernel image.
In future we would like to allocate them dynamically, so this
abstracts out the accesses to the array, making it easier to
change how we locate the lppaca for a given cpu in future.
Specifically, lppaca[cpu] changes to lppaca_of(cpu).
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Simple cleanup by moving arch_sd_sibling_asym_packing from process.c to
smp.c to save an #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
No functionality change.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The POWER architecture does not require stcx to check that it is operating
on the same address as the larx. This means it is possible for an
an exception handler to execute a larx, get a reservation, decide
not to do the stcx and then return back with an active reservation. If the
interrupted code was in the middle of a larx/stcx sequence the stcx could
incorrectly succeed.
All recent POWER CPUs check the address before letting the stcx succeed
so we can create a CPU feature and nop it out. As Ben suggested, we can
only do this in our syscall path because there is a remote possibility
some kernel code gets interrupted by an exception that ends up operating
on the same cacheline.
Thanks to Paul Mackerras and Derek Williams for the idea.
To test this I used a very simple null syscall (actually getppid) testcase
at http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c
I tested against 2.6.35-git10 with the following changes against the
pseries_defconfig:
CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=n
CONFIG_AUDIT=n
CONFIG_PPC_4K_PAGES=n
CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES=y
CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER=9
CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT=n
CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=n
CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=n
CONFIG_IRQSOFF_TRACER=n
CONFIG_STACK_TRACER=n
to remove the overhead of virtual CPU accounting, syscall auditing and
the ftrace mcount tracers. 64kB pages were enabled to minimise TLB misses.
POWER6: +8.2%
POWER7: +7.0%
Another suggestion was to use a larx to something in the L1 instead of a stcx.
This was almost as fast as removing the larx on POWER6, but only 3.5% faster
on POWER7. We can use this to speed up the reservation clear in our
exception exit code.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In f761622e59 we changed
early_setup_secondary so it's called using the proper kernel stack
rather than the emergency one.
Unfortunately, this stack pointer can't be used when translation is off
on PHYP as this stack pointer might be outside the RMO. This results in
the following on all non zero cpus:
cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000001639fd10]
pc: 000000000001c50c
lr: 000000000000821c
sp: c00000001639ff90
msr: 8000000000001000
dar: c00000001639ffa0
dsisr: 42000000
current = 0xc000000016393540
paca = 0xc000000006e00200
pid = 0, comm = swapper
The original patch was only tested on bare metal system, so it never
caught this problem.
This changes __secondary_start so that we calculate the new stack
pointer but only start using it after we've called early_setup_secondary.
With this patch, the above problem goes away.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Commit 0fe1ac48 ("powerpc/perf_event: Fix oops due to
perf_event_do_pending call") moved the call to perf_event_do_pending
in timer_interrupt() down so that it was after the irq_enter() call.
Unfortunately this moved it after the code that checks whether it
is time for the next decrementer clock event. The result is that
the call to perf_event_do_pending() won't happen until the next
decrementer clock event is due. This was pointed out by Milton
Miller.
This fixes it by moving the check for whether it's time for the
next decrementer clock event down to the point where we're about
to call the event handler, after we've called perf_event_do_pending.
This has the side effect that on old pre-Core99 Powermacs where we
use the ppc_n_lost_interrupts mechanism to replay interrupts, a
replayed interrupt will incur a little more latency since it will
now do the code from the irq_enter down to the irq_exit, that it
used to skip. However, these machines are now old and rare enough
that this doesn't matter. To make it clear that ppc_n_lost_interrupts
is only used on Powermacs, and to speed up the code slightly on
non-Powermac ppc32 machines, the code that tests ppc_n_lost_interrupts
is now conditional on CONFIG_PMAC as well as CONFIG_PPC32.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Call kexec purgatory code correctly. We were getting lucky before.
If you examine the powerpc 32bit kexec "purgatory" code you will
see it expects the following:
>From kexec-tools: purgatory/arch/ppc/v2wrap_32.S
-> calling convention:
-> r3 = physical number of this cpu (all cpus)
-> r4 = address of this chunk (master only)
As such, we need to set r3 to the current core, r4 happens to be
unused by purgatory at the moment but we go ahead and set it
here as well
Signed-off-by: Matthew McClintock <msm@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
pci_device_to_OF_node() can return null, and list_for_each_entry will
never enter the loop when dev is NULL, so it looks like this test is
a typo.
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
As early setup calls down to slb_initialize(), we must have kstack
initialised before checking "should we add a bolted SLB entry for our kstack?"
Failing to do so means stack access requires an SLB miss exception to refill
an entry dynamically, if the stack isn't accessible via SLB(0) (kernel text
& static data). It's not always allowable to take such a miss, and
intermittent crashes will result.
Primary CPUs don't have this issue; an SLB entry is not bolted for their
stack anyway (as that lives within SLB(0)). This patch therefore only
affects the init of secondaries.
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When looking at some issues with the virtual ethernet driver I noticed
that TCE allocation was following a very strange pattern:
address 00e9000 length 2048
address 0409000 length 2048 <-----
address 0429000 length 2048
address 0449000 length 2048
address 0469000 length 2048
address 0489000 length 2048
address 04a9000 length 2048
address 04c9000 length 2048
address 04e9000 length 2048
address 4009000 length 2048 <-----
address 4029000 length 2048
Huge unexplained gaps in what should be an empty TCE table. It turns out
it_blocksize, the amount we want to align the next allocation to, was
c0000000fe903b20. Completely bogus.
Initialise it to something reasonable in the VIO IOMMU code, and use kzalloc
everywhere to protect against this when we next add a non compulsary
field to iommu code and forget to initialise it.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
I'm sick of seeing ppc64_runlatch_off in our profiles, so inline it
into the callers. To avoid a mess of circular includes I didn't add
it as an inline function.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The 'smt_enabled=X' boot option does not handle values of X > 2.
For Power 7 processors with smt modes of 0,1,2,3, and 4 this does
not work. This patch allows the smt_enabled option to be set to
any value limited to a max equal to the number of threads per
core.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
During CPU offline/online tests __cpu_up would flood the logs with
the following message:
Processor 0 found.
This provides no useful information to the user as there is no context
provided, and since the operation was a success (to this point) it is expected
that the CPU will come back online, providing all the feedback necessary.
Change the "Processor found" message to DBG() similar to other such messages in
the same function. Also, add an appropriate log level for the "Processor is
stuck" message.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
start_secondary() is called shortly after _start and also via
cpu_idle()->cpu_die()->pseries_mach_cpu_die()
start_secondary() expects a preempt_count() of 0. pseries_mach_cpu_die() is
called via the cpu_idle() routine with preemption disabled, resulting in the
following repeating message during rapid cpu offline/online tests
with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y:
BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0x00000002
Modules linked in: autofs4 binfmt_misc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
Call Trace:
[c00000010e7079c0] [c0000000000133ec] .show_stack+0xd8/0x218 (unreliable)
[c00000010e707aa0] [c0000000006a47f0] .dump_stack+0x28/0x3c
[c00000010e707b20] [c00000000006e7a4] .__schedule_bug+0x7c/0x9c
[c00000010e707bb0] [c000000000699d9c] .schedule+0x104/0x800
[c00000010e707cd0] [c000000000015b24] .cpu_idle+0x1c4/0x1d8
[c00000010e707d70] [c0000000006aa1b4] .start_secondary+0x398/0x3d4
[c00000010e707e30] [c000000000008278] .start_secondary_resume+0x10/0x14
Move the cpu_die() call inside the existing preemption enabled block of
cpu_idle(). This is safe as the idle task is affined to a single CPU so the
debug_smp_processor_id() tests (from cpu_should_die()) won't trigger as we are
in a "migration disabled" region.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
list_for_each_entry binds its first argument to a non-null value, and thus
any null test on the value of that argument is superfluous.
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
iterator I;
expression x,E,E1,E2;
statement S,S1,S2;
@@
I(x,...) { <...
- if (x != NULL || ...)
S
...> }
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
During kdump we run the crash handlers first then stop all other CPUs.
We really want to stop all CPUs as close to the fail as possible and also
have a very controlled environment for running the crash handlers, so it
makes sense to reverse the order.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Matt Evans <matt@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Use is_32bit_task() helper to test 32 bit binary.
Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The interrupt stacks need to be indexed by the physical cpu since the
critical, debug and machine check handlers use the contents of SPRN_PIR to
index the critirq_ctx, dbgirq_ctx, and mcheckirq_ctx arrays.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There are two entries for .cpu_user_features in
arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c. Remove the one that doesn't belong
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Clear the machine check syndrom register before enabling machine check
interrupts. The initial state of the tlb can lead to parity errors being
flagged early after a cold boot.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:
arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().
do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.
Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.
This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't. The list includes:
(*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
syscalls and some mount syscalls.
(*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.
(*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
um: Fix read_persistent_clock fallout
kgdb: Do not access xtime directly
powerpc: Clean up obsolete code relating to decrementer and timebase
powerpc: Rework VDSO gettimeofday to prevent time going backwards
clocksource: Add __clocksource_updatefreq_hz/khz methods
x86: Convert common clocksources to use clocksource_register_hz/khz
timekeeping: Make xtime and wall_to_monotonic static
hrtimer: Cleanup direct access to wall_to_monotonic
um: Convert to use read_persistent_clock
timkeeping: Fix update_vsyscall to provide wall_to_monotonic offset
powerpc: Cleanup xtime usage
powerpc: Simplify update_vsyscall
time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME
time: Implement timespec_add
x86: Fix vtime/file timestamp inconsistencies
Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
Much less trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c resolved as
per Thomas' earlier merge commit 47916be4e2 ("Merge branch
'powerpc.cherry-picks' into timers/clocksource")
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (27 commits)
sched: Use correct macro to display sched_child_runs_first in /proc/sched_debug
sched: No need for bootmem special cases
sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for now
sched: Reduce update_group_power() calls
sched: Update rq->clock for nohz balanced cpus
sched: Fix spelling of sibling
sched, cpuset: Drop __cpuexit from cpu hotplug callbacks
sched: Fix the racy usage of thread_group_cputimer() in fastpath_timer_check()
sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand()
sched: thread_group_cputime: Simplify, document the "alive" check
sched: Remove the obsolete exit_state/signal hacks
sched: task_tick_rt: Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL check
sched: __sched_setscheduler: Read the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value lockless
sched: Fix comments to make them DocBook happy
sched: Fix fix_small_capacity
powerpc: Exclude arch_sd_sibiling_asym_packing() on UP
powerpc: Enable asymmetric SMT scheduling on POWER7
sched: Add asymmetric group packing option for sibling domain
sched: Fix capacity calculations for SMT4
sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push model
...
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits)
tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
perf: expose event__process function
perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
perf: New migration tool overview
tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
debug_core,kdb: fix crash when arch does not have single step
kgdb,x86: use macro HBP_NUM to replace magic number 4
kgdb,mips: remove unused kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step operations
mm,kdb,kgdb: Add a debug reference for the kdb kmap usage
KGDB: Remove set but unused newPC
ftrace,kdb: Allow dumping a specific cpu's buffer with ftdump
ftrace,kdb: Extend kdb to be able to dump the ftrace buffer
kgdb,powerpc: Replace hardcoded offset by BREAK_INSTR_SIZE
arm,kgdb: Add ability to trap into debugger on notify_die
gdbstub: do not directly use dbg_reg_def[] in gdb_cmd_reg_set()
gdbstub: Implement gdbserial 'p' and 'P' packets
kgdb,arm: Individual register get/set for arm
kgdb,mips: Individual register get/set for mips
kgdb,x86: Individual register get/set for x86
kgdb,kdb: individual register set and and get API
gdbstub: Optimize kgdb's "thread:" response for the gdb serial protocol
kgdb: remove custom hex_to_bin()implementation
* 'next-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: (63 commits)
of/platform: Register of_platform_drivers with an "of:" prefix
of/address: Clean up function declarations
of/spi: call of_register_spi_devices() from spi core code
of: Provide default of_node_to_nid() implementation.
of/device: Make of_device_make_bus_id() usable by other code.
of/irq: Fix endian issues in parsing interrupt specifiers
of: Fix phandle endian issues
of/flattree: fix of_flat_dt_is_compatible() to match the full compatible string
of: remove of_default_bus_ids
of: make of_find_device_by_node generic
microblaze: remove references to of_device and to_of_device
sparc: remove references to of_device and to_of_device
powerpc: remove references to of_device and to_of_device
of/device: Replace of_device with platform_device in includes and core code
of/device: Protect against binding of_platform_drivers to non-OF devices
of: remove asm/of_device.h
of: remove asm/of_platform.h
of/platform: remove all of_bus_type and of_platform_bus_type references
of: Merge of_platform_bus_type with platform_bus_type
drivercore/of: Add OF style matching to platform bus
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/microblaze/kernel/Makefile due to just
some obj-y removals by the devicetree branch, while the microblaze
updates added a new file.
Timur Tabi