lwn.git/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h, branch v3.7.3

i386/x86_64: move headers to include/asm-x86

2007-10-11T09:20:03+00:00

Move the headers to include/asm-x86 and fixup the header install make rules Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250

2007-07-16T16:05:35+00:00

Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and include/asm-x86_64/serial.h. the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in serial initializing stage. the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=> register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time. need to wait till uart_add_one_port in drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0. that is too late. Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier. Make it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature. and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically. new command line will be: console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 or earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 it will print in very early stage: Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8') console [uart0] enabled later for console it will print: console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0] Signed-off-by: Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Russell King Cc: Gerd Hoffmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: Allocate a fixmap slot

2007-05-02T17:27:13+00:00

Allocate a fixmap slot for use by a paravirt_ops implementation. This is intended for early-boot bootstrap mappings. Once the zones and allocator have been set up, it would be better to use get_vm_area() to allocate some virtual space. Xen uses this to map the hypervisor's shared info page, which doesn't have a pseudo-physical page number, and therefore can't be mapped ordinarily. It is needed early because it contains the vcpu state, including the interrupt mask. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Ingo Molnar

[PATCH] i386: Relocate VDSO ELF headers to match mapped location with COMPAT_VDSO

2007-05-02T17:27:12+00:00

Some versions of libc can't deal with a VDSO which doesn't have its ELF headers matching its mapped address. COMPAT_VDSO maps the VDSO at a specific system-wide fixed address. Previously this was all done at build time, on the grounds that the fixed VDSO address is always at the top of the address space. However, a hypervisor may reserve some of that address space, pushing the fixmap address down. This patch does the adjustment dynamically at runtime, depending on the runtime location of the VDSO fixmap. [ Patch has been through several hands: Jan Beulich wrote the orignal version; Zach reworked it, and Jeremy converted it to relocate phdrs as well as sections. ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Zachary Amsden Cc: "Jan Beulich" Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Roland McGrath

[PATCH] Fix CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO

2007-01-26T21:50:58+00:00

I wouldn't mind if CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO went away entirely. But if it's there, it should work properly. Currently it's quite haphazard: both real vma and fixmap are mapped, both are put in the two different AT_* slots, sysenter returns to the vma address rather than the fixmap address, and core dumps yet are another story. This patch makes CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO disable the real vma and use the fixmap area consistently. This makes it actually compatible with what the old vdso implementation did. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] x86: make __FIXADDR_TOP variable to allow it to make space for a hypervisor

2006-09-26T15:48:55+00:00

Make __FIXADDR_TOP a variable, so that it can be set to not get in the way of address space a hypervisor may want to reserve. Original patch by Gerd Hoffmann Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Cc: Gerd Hoffmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] vdso: randomize the i386 vDSO by moving it into a vma

2006-06-28T00:32:38+00:00

Move the i386 VDSO down into a vma and thus randomize it. Besides the security implications, this feature also helps debuggers, which can COW a vma-backed VDSO just like a normal DSO and can thus do single-stepping and other debugging features. It's good for hypervisors (Xen, VMWare) too, which typically live in the same high-mapped address space as the VDSO, hence whenever the VDSO is used, they get lots of guest pagefaults and have to fix such guest accesses up - which slows things down instead of speeding things up (the primary purpose of the VDSO). There's a new CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO (default=y) option, which provides support for older glibcs that still rely on a prelinked high-mapped VDSO. Newer distributions (using glibc 2.3.3 or later) can turn this option off. Turning it off is also recommended for security reasons: attackers cannot use the predictable high-mapped VDSO page as syscall trampoline anymore. There is a new vdso=[0|1] boot option as well, and a runtime /proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled sysctl switch, that allows the VDSO to be turned on/off. (This version of the VDSO-randomization patch also has working ELF coredumping, the previous patch crashed in the coredumping code.) This code is a combined work of the exec-shield VDSO randomization code and Gerd Hoffmann's hypervisor-centric VDSO patch. Rusty Russell started this patch and i completed it. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] [akpm@osdl.org: compile fix] [akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 2] [akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 3] [akpm@osdl.org: revernt MAXMEM change] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Zachary Amsden Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/

2006-04-26T11:56:16+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

[ACPI] delete CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT

2005-08-24T16:08:54+00:00

it has been a synonym for CONFIG_ACPI since 2.6.12 Signed-off-by: Len Brown

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!