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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tim Abbott
abe1ee3a22 Use macros for .data.page_aligned section.
This patch changes the remaining direct references to
.data.page_aligned in C and assembly code to use the macros in
include/linux/linkage.h.

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-21 06:27:08 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
f86fd30660 kbuild: rename ld-option to cc-ldoption
ld-option is misnamed as it test options to gcc, not to ld.
Renamed it to reflect this.

Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:27:42 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky
1277580fe5 [S390] vdso: clock_gettime of CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID with noexec=on
The combination of noexec=on and a clock_gettime call with clock id
CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID is broken. The vdso code switches to the
access register mode to get access to the per-cpu data structure to
execute the magic ectg instruction. After the ectg instruction the
code always switches back to the primary mode but for noexec=on the
correct mode is the secondary mode. The effect of the bug is that the
user space program looses the access to all mappings without PROT_EXEC,
e.g. the stack. The problem is fixed by restoring the mode that has
been active before the switch to the access register mode.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-07-24 12:41:02 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky
c742b31c03 [PATCH] fast vdso implementation for CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID
The extract cpu time instruction (ectg) instruction allows the user
process to get the current thread cputime without calling into the
kernel. The code that uses the instruction needs to switch to the
access registers mode to get access to the per-cpu info page that
contains the two base values that are needed to calculate the current
cputime from the CPU timer with the ectg instruction.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-12-31 15:11:49 +01:00
Martin Schwidefsky
b020632e40 [S390] introduce vdso on s390
Add a vdso to speed up gettimeofday and clock_getres/clock_gettime for
CLOCK_REALTIME/CLOCK_MONOTONIC.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-12-25 13:38:55 +01:00