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Rusty Russell
33edcf133b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-12-30 08:02:35 +10:30
James Morris
cbacc2c7f0 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2008-12-25 11:40:09 +11:00
Rusty Russell
320ab2b0b1 cpumask: convert struct clock_event_device to cpumask pointers.
Impact: change calling convention of existing clock_event APIs

struct clock_event_timer's cpumask field gets changed to take pointer,
as does the ->broadcast function.

Another single-patch change.  For safety, we BUG_ON() in
clockevents_register_device() if it's not set.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-13 21:20:26 +10:30
Rusty Russell
0de26520c7 cpumask: make irq_set_affinity() take a const struct cpumask
Impact: change existing irq_chip API

Not much point with gentle transition here: the struct irq_chip's
setaffinity method signature needs to change.

Fortunately, not widely used code, but hits a few architectures.

Note: In irq_select_affinity() I save a temporary in by mangling
irq_desc[irq].affinity directly.  Ingo, does this break anything?

(Folded in fix from KOSAKI Motohiro)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: grundler@parisc-linux.org
Cc: jeremy@xensource.com
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
2008-12-13 21:20:26 +10:30
Rusty Russell
29c0177e6a cpumask: change cpumask_scnprintf, cpumask_parse_user, cpulist_parse, and cpulist_scnprintf to take pointers.
Impact: change calling convention of existing cpumask APIs

Most cpumask functions started with cpus_: these have been replaced by
cpumask_ ones which take struct cpumask pointers as expected.

These four functions don't have good replacement names; fortunately
they're rarely used, so we just change them over.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org
Cc: srostedt@redhat.com
2008-12-13 21:20:25 +10:30
Rusty Russell
98a79d6a50 cpumask: centralize cpu_online_map and cpu_possible_map
Impact: cleanup

Each SMP arch defines these themselves.  Move them to a central
location.

Twists:
1) Some archs (m32, parisc, s390) set possible_map to all 1, so we add a
   CONFIG_INIT_ALL_POSSIBLE for this rather than break them.

2) mips and sparc32 '#define cpu_possible_map phys_cpu_present_map'.
   Those archs simply have phys_cpu_present_map replaced everywhere.

3) Alpha defined cpu_possible_map to cpu_present_map; this is tricky
   so I just manipulate them both in sync.

4) IA64, cris and m32r have gratuitous 'extern cpumask_t cpu_possible_map'
   declarations.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru
Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: starvik@axis.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: takata@linux-m32r.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: grundler@parisc-linux.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: lethal@linux-sh.org
Cc: wli@holomorphy.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: jdike@addtoit.com
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
2008-12-13 21:19:41 +10:30
Nick Andrew
8ebcfc8bcb MIPS: Fix incorrect use of loose in vpe.c
It should be 'lose', not 'loose'.

Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-12-05 18:19:23 +00:00
David Daney
c6cb4df96f MIPS: Return ENOSYS from sys32_syscall on 64bit kernels like elsewhere.
When the o32 errno was changed to ENOSYS, we forgot to update the code
for 64bit kernels.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-12-04 17:47:28 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
8d13cb26cd MIPS: 64-bit: vmsplice needs to use the compat wrapper for o32 and N32.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-12-04 17:47:28 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
08d30879a6 MIPS: o32: Fix number of arguments to splice(2).
The syscall code was assuming splice only takes 4 arguments so no stack
arguments were being copied from the userspace stack to the kernel stack.
As the result splice was likely to fail with EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-12-04 17:47:28 +00:00
Vlad Malov
e807f9574e MIPS: Fix potential DOS by untrusted user app.
On a 64 bit kernel if an o32 syscall was made with a syscall number less
than 4000, we would read the function from outside of the bounds of the
syscall table.  This led to non-deterministic behavior including system
crashes.

While we were at it we reworked the 32 bit version as well to use fewer
instructions.  Both 32 and 64 bit versions are use the same code now.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Malov <Vlad.Malov@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-12-04 17:47:26 +00:00
James Morris
ec98ce480a Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c

Manually fixed above to use new creds API functions, e.g.
nfs4_save_creds().

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-04 17:16:36 +11:00
Ralf Baechle
664c4bbb73 MIPS: csrc-r4k: Fix spelling mistake.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-11-20 19:42:33 +00:00
David Howells
d76b0d9b2d CRED: Use creds in file structs
Attach creds to file structs and discard f_uid/f_gid.

file_operations::open() methods (such as hppfs_open()) should use file->f_cred
rather than current_cred().  At the moment file->f_cred will be current_cred()
at this point.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:25 +11:00
David Howells
b6dff3ec5e CRED: Separate task security context from task_struct
Separate the task security context from task_struct.  At this point, the
security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
pointing to it.

Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in
entry.S via asm-offsets.

With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:16 +11:00
David Howells
b4212737a3 CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the MIPS arch
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id().  In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:38:37 +11:00
Ralf Baechle
cea7e2dfde MIPS: Sort out CPU type to name translation.
As noticed by David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>, the old long switch
statement did not comply with the Linux C coding style.  It was also yet
another place of code to be changed when adding a new processor type
leading to annoying bugs for example in /proc/cpuinfo.

Fixed by moving the setting of the CPU type string into the core of the
probing code and a few BUG_ON() test to ensure the CPU probing code indeed
did its job and removing multiple now redundant tests.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-30 14:44:34 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
558ce12494 MIPS: Probe for watch registers on cores of all vendors, not just MTI.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
2008-10-30 14:44:34 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
ba3049ed40 MIPS: Switch FPU emulator trap to BREAK instruction.
Arguably using the address error handler has always been ugly.  But with
processors that handle unaligned loads and stores in hardware the
current mechanism ceases to work so switch it to a BREAK instruction and
allocate break code 514 to the FPU emulator.

Yoichi Yuasa provided a build fix for CONFIG_BUG=n.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
2008-10-30 14:44:34 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
076c6e4f4d MIPS: SMP: Do not initialize __cpu_number_map/__cpu_logical_map for CPU 0.
A system isn't necessarily booted on physical processor 0 as this code
assumes.  Also the array happens to be allocated in .bss so it's zero
initialized anyway.  Systems which need to override this can do so in
their mp_ops->smp_setup() method.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-30 14:44:33 +00:00
David Daney
566f74f6b2 MIPS: Consider value of c0_ebase when computing value of exception base.
It just so happens to be zero on all currently supported systems so this
hasn't bitten yet ...

[Ralf: Original patch from Cavium; handling of set_uncached_handler() and
de-ifdef'ed trap_init() implementation by me.]

Signed-off-by: Tomaso Paoletti <tpaoletti@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-30 14:44:33 +00:00
Shinya Kuribayashi
542c1020ac MIPS: Add CONFIG_CPU_R5500 for NEC VR5500 series processors
We already have sufficient infrastructure to support VR5500 and VR5500A
series processors.  Here's a Makefile support to make it selectable by
ports, and enable it for NEC EMMA2RH Markeins board.

This patch also fixes a confused target help, and adds 1Gb PageMask bits
supported by VR5500 and its variants.

Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi@necel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-27 16:18:29 +00:00
Atsushi Nemoto
fb498e2570 MIPS: Set ENOSYS to errno on illegal system call number for syscall(2)
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-27 16:18:26 +00:00
Atsushi Nemoto
bda8229bdd MIPS: Set positive error number to errno on illegal_syscall
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-27 16:18:26 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
7920c4d658 MIPS: SMP: Don't reenable interrupts in stop_this_cpu; use WAIT instruction.
Noticed by Anirban Sinha <ASinha@zeugmasystems.com>; patch by me.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-27 16:18:26 +00:00
Zhaolei
b517531ce5 MIPS: Fix debugfs_create_*'s error checking method for mips/kernel/
debugfs_create_*() returns NULL on error.  Make its callers return -ENODEV
on error.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-27 16:18:25 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
c813b4e16e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (46 commits)
  UIO: Fix mapping of logical and virtual memory
  UIO: add automata sercos3 pci card support
  UIO: Change driver name of uio_pdrv
  UIO: Add alignment warnings for uio-mem
  Driver core: add bus_sort_breadthfirst() function
  NET: convert the phy_device file to use bus_find_device_by_name
  kobject: Cleanup kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
  kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
  sysfs: Make dir and name args to sysfs_notify() const
  platform: add new device registration helper
  sysfs: use ilookup5() instead of ilookup5_nowait()
  PNP: create device attributes via default device attributes
  Driver core: make bus_find_device_by_name() more robust
  usb: turn dev_warn+WARN_ON combos into dev_WARN
  debug: use dev_WARN() rather than WARN_ON() in device_pm_add()
  debug: Introduce a dev_WARN() function
  sysfs: fix deadlock
  device model: Do a quickcheck for driver binding before doing an expensive check
  Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs().
  Driver core: Clarify device cleanup.
  ...
2008-10-16 12:40:26 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
b418da16dd compat: generic compat get/settimeofday
Nothing arch specific in get/settimeofday.  The details of the timeval
conversion varied a little from arch to arch, but all with the same
results.

Also add an extern declaration for sys_tz to linux/time.h because externs
in .c files are fowned upon.  I'll kill the externs in various other files
in a sparate patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ sparc bits ]
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:33 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
f7a5000f7a compat: move cp_compat_stat to common code
struct stat / compat_stat is the same on all architectures, so
cp_compat_stat should be, too.

Turns out it is, except that various architectures have slightly and some
high2lowuid/high2lowgid or the direct assignment instead of the
SET_UID/SET_GID that expands to the correct one anyway.

This patch replaces the arch-specific cp_compat_stat implementations with
a common one based on the x86-64 one.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ sparc bits ]
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [ parisc bits ]
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:33 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a9b12619f7 device create: misc: convert device_create_drvdata to device_create
Now that device_create() has been audited, rename things back to the
original call to be sane.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:43 -07:00
David Daney
2dbac10263 MIPS: Align .data.cacheline_aligned based on CONFIG_MIPS_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomaso Paoletti <tpaoletti@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-15 12:46:50 +01:00
Johannes Dickgreber
e47c659b55 MIPS: show_cpuinfo prints the type of the calling CPU
It should print the type of the Nth processor.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Dickgreber <tanzy@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-15 12:46:50 +01:00
David Woodhouse
e758936e02 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	include/asm-x86/statfs.h
2008-10-13 17:13:56 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
d302d05cf4 MIPS: Move ptrace prototypes to ptrace.h
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-11 16:18:57 +01:00
David Daney
0926bf953e MIPS: Ptrace support for HARDWARE_WATCHPOINTS
This is the final part of the watch register patch.  Here we hook up
ptrace so that the user space debugger (gdb), can set and read the
registers.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-11 16:18:57 +01:00
David Daney
b67b2b7030 MIPS: Watch exception handling for HARDWARE_WATCHPOINTS.
Here we hook up the watch exception handler so that it sends SIGTRAP when
the hardware watch registers are triggered.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-11 16:18:56 +01:00
David Daney
654f57bfb4 MIPS: Probe watch registers and report configuration.
Probe for watch register characteristics, and report them in /proc/cpuinfo.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-11 16:18:56 +01:00
David Daney
6aa3524c18 MIPS: Add HARDWARE_WATCHPOINTS definitions and support code.
This is the main support code for the patch.  Here we just add the
code, the following patches hook it up.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

 create mode 100644 arch/mips/include/asm/watch.h
 create mode 100644 arch/mips/kernel/watch.c
2008-10-11 16:18:56 +01:00
Thomas Bogendoerfer
5d9a76cd0e MIPS: Use compat_sys_ptrace
This replaces mips's sys_ptrace32 with a compat_arch_ptrace and
enables the new generic definition of compat_sys_ptrace instead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-11 16:18:41 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
990d0f2ced Merge branches 'sched/devel', 'sched/cpu-hotplug', 'sched/cpusets' and 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2008-10-08 11:31:02 +02:00
Ralf Baechle
fd3d2764ee [MIPS] IP27: Fix build errors if CONFIG_MAPPED_KERNEL=y
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-06 01:22:29 +01:00
Kevin D. Kissell
8531a35e5e [MIPS] SMTC: Fix SMTC dyntick support.
Rework of SMTC support to make it work with the new clock event system,
allowing "tickless" operation, and to make it compatible with the use of
the "wait_irqoff" idle loop.  The new clocking scheme means that the
previously optional IPI instant replay mechanism is now required, and has
been made more robust.

Signed-off-by: Kevin D. Kissell <kevink@paralogos.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-03 17:58:58 +01:00
Kevin D. Kissell
d2bb01b042 [MIPS] SMTC: Close tiny holes in the SMTC IPI replay system.
Signed-off-by: Kevin D. Kissell <kevink@paralogos.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-03 17:58:58 +01:00
Kevin D. Kissell
9cc123631b [MIPS] SMTC: Fix holes in SMTC and FPU affinity support.
Signed-off-by: Kevin D. Kissell <kevink@paralogos.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-03 17:58:58 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
b7e4226e4f [MIPS] Build fix: Fix irq flags type
Though from a hardware perspective it would be sensible to use only a
32-bit unsigned int type Linux defines interrupt flags to be stored in
an unsigned long and nothing else.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-03 17:58:56 +01:00
Jason Wessel
d7161a6534 kgdb, x86, arm, mips, powerpc: ignore user space single stepping
On the x86 arch, user space single step exceptions should be ignored
if they occur in the kernel space, such as ptrace stepping through a
system call.

First check if it is kgdb that is executing a single step, then ensure
it is not an accidental traversal into the user space, while in kgdb,
any other time the TIF_SINGLESTEP is set, kgdb should ignore the
exception.

On x86, arm, mips and powerpc, the kgdb_contthread usage was
inconsistent with the way single stepping is implemented in the kgdb
core.  The arch specific stub should always set the
kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step correctly if it is single stepping.  This
allows kgdb to correctly process an instruction steps if ptrace
happens to be requesting an instruction step over a system call.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-09-26 10:36:41 -05:00
Atsushi Nemoto
6b3766a263 [MIPS] vmlinux.lds.S: handle .text.*
The -ffunction-sections puts each text in .text.function_name section.
Without this patch, most functions are placed outside _text..._etext
area and it breaks show_stacktrace(), etc.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-09-21 14:52:58 +02:00
Atsushi Nemoto
c65a5480ff [MIPS] Fix potential latency problem due to non-atomic cpu_wait.
If an interrupt happened between checking of NEED_RESCHED and WAIT
instruction, adjust EPC to restart from checking of NEED_RESCHED.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-09-21 14:52:57 +02:00
Ralf Baechle
6657fe0a02 [MIPS] SMTC: Clear TIF_FPUBOUND on clone / fork.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-09-21 14:52:57 +02:00
Manfred Spraul
e545a6140b kernel/cpu.c: create a CPU_STARTING cpu_chain notifier
Right now, there is no notifier that is called on a new cpu, before the new
cpu begins processing interrupts/softirqs.
Various kernel function would need that notification, e.g. kvm works around
by calling smp_call_function_single(), rcu polls cpu_online_map.

The patch adds a CPU_STARTING notification. It also adds a helper function
that sends the message to all cpu_chain handlers.

Tested on x86-64.
All other archs are untested. Especially on sparc, I'm not sure if I got
it right.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-08 19:25:24 +02:00