History log of /linux-master/arch/um/kernel/physmem.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 3848d470 14-Jul-2022 Jason Wang <wangborong@cdjrlc.com>

um: Fix comment typo

The double `in' is duplicated in line 172, remove one.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <wangborong@cdjrlc.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 0d1fb0a4 25-Aug-2019 Alex Dewar <alex.dewar@gmx.co.uk>

um: Add SPDX headers to files in arch/um/kernel/

Convert files to use SPDX header. All files are licensed under the
GPLv2.

Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar@gmx.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 5d38f324 11-Sep-2019 Erel Geron <erelx.geron@intel.com>

um: drivers: Add virtio vhost-user driver

This module allows virtio devices to be used over a vhost-user socket.

Signed-off-by: Erel Geron <erelx.geron@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 57c8a661 30-Oct-2018 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

mm: remove include/linux/bootmem.h

Move remaining definitions and declarations from include/linux/bootmem.h
into include/linux/memblock.h and remove the redundant header.

The includes were replaced with the semantic patch below and then
semi-automated removal of duplicated '#include <linux/memblock.h>

@@
@@
- #include <linux/bootmem.h>
+ #include <linux/memblock.h>

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: dma-direct: fix up for the removal of linux/bootmem.h]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181002185342.133d1680@canb.auug.org.au
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: powerpc: fix up for removal of linux/bootmem.h]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005161406.73ef8727@canb.auug.org.au
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: x86/kaslr, ACPI/NUMA: fix for linux/bootmem.h removal]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181008190341.5e396491@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536927045-23536-30-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ddf63983 26-Oct-2018 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

um: switch to NO_BOOTMEM

Replace bootmem initialization with memblock_add and memblock_reserve calls
and explicit initialization of {min,max}_low_pfn.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533326330-31677-7-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# be6ec5b1 26-Oct-2018 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

um: setup_physmem: stop using global variables

The setup_physmem() function receives uml_physmem and uml_reserved as
parameters and still used these global variables. Replace such usage with
local variables.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533326330-31677-6-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 0936d4f3 17-May-2017 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

um: Use os_warn to print out pre-boot warning/error messages

Use os_warn() instead of printf/fprintf to print out
pre-boot warning/error messages to stderr.
Note that the help message and version message are
kept to print out to stdout, because user explicitly
specifies those options to get such information.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 05eacfd0 12-Oct-2014 Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>

um: Use char[] for linker script address declarations

The linker script defines some variables which are declared either with
type char[] in include/asm-generic/sections.h or with a meaningless
integer type in arch/um/include/asm/sections.h.

Fix this inconsistency by declaring every variable char[].

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# d5f20be7 12-Oct-2014 Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>

um: Create asm/sections.h

arch/um/kernel/dyn.lds.S and arch/um/kernel/uml.lds.S define some
UML-specific symbols. These symbols are used in the kernel part of UML
with extern declarations.

Move these declarations to a new header, asm/sections.h, like other
architectures do.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# fe205bdd 03-Apr-2015 Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

um: Print minimum physical memory requirement

Print a more sensible message about the minimum physical memory
requirement.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 9e6a57d2 02-Jun-2014 Honggang Li <enjoymindful@gmail.com>

um: delete unnecessary bootmem struct page array

1) uml kernel bootmem managed through bootmem_data->node_bootmem_map,
not the struct page array, so the array is unnecessary.

2) the bootmem struct page array has been pointed by a *local* pointer,
struct page *map, in init_maps function. The array can be accessed only
in init_maps's scope. As a result, uml kernel wastes about 1% of total
memory.

Signed-off-by: Honggang Li <enjoymindful@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 0565103d 07-Mar-2014 Anton Ivanov <antivano@cisco.com>

um: Memory corruption on startup

The reverse case of this race (you must msync before read) is
well known. This is the not so common one.

It can be triggered only on systems which do a lot of task
switching and only at UML startup. If you are starting 200+ UMLs
~ 0.5% will always die without this fix.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <antivano@cisco.com>
[rw: minor whitespace fixes]
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 73395a00 18-Aug-2011 Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>

um: distribute exports to where exported stuff is defined

ksyms.c is down to the stuff defined in various USER_OBJS

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 99764fa4 23-Jul-2008 WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

UML: make several more things static

- Make some variables and functions static, since they don't need to be
global.

- Remove an unused function - arch/um/kernel/time.c::sched_clock().

- Clean the style a bit as complained by checkpatch.pl.

Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 80e39311 04-Feb-2008 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: SMP locking commentary

Add some more commentary about various pieces of global data not needing
locking.

Also got rid of unmap_physmem since that is no longer used.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 42a2b54c 04-Feb-2008 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: clean up TASK_SIZE usage

Clean up the calculation and use of the usable address space size on the host.

task_size is gone, replaced with TASK_SIZE, which is calculated from
CONFIG_TOP_ADDR. get_kmem_end and set_task_sizes_skas are also gone.

host_task_size, which refers to the entire address space usable by the UML
kernel and which may be larger than the address space usable by a UML process,
since that has to end on a pgdir boundary, is replaced by CONFIG_TOP_ADDR.

STACK_TOP is now TASK_SIZE minus the two stub pages.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 512b6fb1 16-Oct-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: userspace files should call libc directly

A number of files that were changed in the recent removal of tt mode
are userspace files which call the os_* wrappers instead of calling
libc directly. A few other files were affected by this, through

This patch makes these call glibc directly.

There are also style fixes in the affected areas.

os_print_error has no remaining callers, so it is deleted.

There is a interface change to os_set_exec_close, eliminating a
parameter which was always the same. The callers are fixed as well.

os_process_pc got its error path cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 0a7675aa 16-Oct-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: remove __u64 usage from physical memory subsystem

Eliminate some uses of __u64 in the physical memory support. It's hard to get
a definition of __u64 in both kernel and userspace code on x86_64, so this
changes them to unsigned long long.

There are also a copyright update and formatting comment removal from the
affected header.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ba180fd4 16-Oct-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: style fixes pass 3

Formatting changes in the files which have been changed in the course
of folding foo_skas functions into their callers. These include:
copyright updates
header file trimming
style fixes
adding severity to printks

These changes should be entirely non-functional.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 77bf4400 16-Oct-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: remove code made redundant by CHOOSE_MODE removal

This patch makes a number of simplifications enabled by the removal of
CHOOSE_MODE. There were lots of functions that looked like

int foo(args){
foo_skas(args);
}

The bodies of foo_skas are now folded into foo, and their declarations (and
sometimes entire header files) are deleted.

In addition, the union uml_pt_regs, which was a union between the tt and skas
register formats, is now a struct, with the tt-mode arm of the union being
removed.

It turns out that usr2_handler was unused, so it is gone.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 6aa802ce 16-Oct-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: throw out CHOOSE_MODE

The next stage after removing code which depends on CONFIG_MODE_TT is removing
the CHOOSE_MODE abstraction, which provided both compile-time and run-time
branching to either tt-mode or skas-mode code.

This patch removes choose-mode.h and all inclusions of it, and replaces all
CHOOSE_MODE invocations with the skas branch. This leaves a number of trivial
functions which will be dealt with in a later patch.

There are some changes in the uaccess and tls support which go somewhat beyond
this and eliminate some of the now-redundant functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 6d536e4b 16-Oct-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: physmem code tidying

Tidying of the UML physical memory system. These are mostly style fixes,
however the includes were cleaned as well. This uncovered a need for
mem_user.h to be included in mode_kern_skas.h.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 5c8aacea 16-Oct-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: stop specially protecting kernel stacks

Map all of physical memory as executable to avoid having to change stack
protections during fork and exit.

unprotect_stack is now called only from MODE_TT code, so it is marked as such.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 97a1fcbb 23-Jul-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: more __init annotations

2.6.23-rc1 turned up another batch of references from non-__init code to
__init code. In most cases, these were missing __init annotations. In one
case (os_drop_memory), the annotation was present but wrong.

init_maps is __init, but for some reason was being very careful about the
mechanism by which it allocated memory, checking whether it was OK to use
kmalloc (at this point in the boot, it definitely isn't) and using either
alloc_bootmem_low_pages or kmalloc/vmalloc. So, the kmalloc/vmalloc code is
removed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 16dd07bc 06-May-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: more page fault path trimming

More trimming of the page fault path.

Permissions are passed around in a single int rather than one bit per
int. The permission values are copied from libc so that they can be
passed to mmap and mprotect without any further conversion.

The register sets used by do_syscall_stub and copy_context_skas0 are
initialized once, at boot time, rather than once per call.

wait_stub_done checks whether it is getting the signals it expects by
comparing the wait status to a mask containing bits for the signals of
interest rather than comparing individually to the signal numbers. It
also has one check for a wait failure instead of two. The caller is
expected to do the initial continue of the stub. This gets rid of an
argument and some logic. The fname argument is gone, as that can be
had from a stack trace.

user_signal() is collapsed into userspace() as it is basically one or
two lines of code afterwards.

The physical memory remapping stuff is gone, as it is unused.

flush_tlb_page is inlined.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# a6ea4cce 06-May-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: rename os_{read_write}_file_k back to os_{read_write}_file

Rename os_{read_write}_file_k back to os_{read_write}_file, delete
the originals and their bogus infrastructure, and fix all the callers.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# fda83a99 06-May-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: change remaining callers of os_{read_write}_file

Convert all remaining os_{read_write}_file users to use the simple
{read,write} wrappers, os_{read_write}_file_k.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3d564047 06-May-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: start fixing os_read_file and os_write_file

This patch starts the removal of a very old, very broken piece of code. This
stems from the problem of passing a userspace buffer into read() or write() on
the host. If that buffer had not yet been faulted in, read and write will
return -EFAULT.

To avoid this problem, the solution was to fault the buffer in before the
system call by touching the pages that hold the buffer by doing a copy-user of
a byte to each page. This is obviously bogus, but it does usually work, in tt
mode, since the kernel and process are in the same address space and userspace
addresses can be accessed directly in the kernel.

In skas mode, where the kernel and process are in separate address spaces, it
is completely bogus because the userspace address, which is invalid in the
kernel, is passed into the system call instead of the corresponding physical
address, which would be valid. Here, it appears that this code, on every host
read() or write(), tries to fault in a random process page. This doesn't seem
to cause any correctness problems, but there is a performance impact. This
patch, and the ones following, result in a 10-15% performance gain on a kernel
build.

This code can't be immediately tossed out because when it is, you can't log
in. Apparently, there is some code in the console driver which depends on
this somehow.

However, we can start removing it by switching the code which does I/O using
kernel addresses to using plain read() and write(). This patch introduces
os_read_file_k and os_write_file_k for use with kernel buffers and converts
all call locations which use obvious kernel buffers to use them. These
include I/O using buffers which are local variables which are on the stack or
kmalloc-ed. Later patches will handle the less obvious cases, followed by a
mass conversion back to the original interface.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 9218b171 06-May-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: remove user_util.h

user_util.h isn't needed any more, so delete it and remove all includes of it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 4ff83ce1 06-May-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

uml: create as-layout.h

This patch moves all the the symbols defined in um_arch.c, which are mostly
boundaries between different parts of the UML kernel address space, to a new
header, as-layout.h. There are also a few things here which aren't really
related to address space layout, but which don't really have a better place to
go.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 60678bbc 10-Feb-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

[PATCH] uml: mem.c and physmem.c formatting fixes

Fix a bunch of style violations in mem.c and physmem.c

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 94c282d7 10-Feb-2007 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

[PATCH] uml: locking comments in iomem driver

Comment some lack of locking in the iomem driver.

Also, a couple of variables are in the wrong place, so they are moved.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 23bbd586 10-Jul-2006 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

[PATCH] uml: fix static binary segfault

When UML is built as a static binary, it segfaults when run. The reason is
that a memory hole that is present in dynamic binaries isn't there in static
binaries, and it contains essential stuff.

This fix removes the code which maps some anonymous memory into that hole and
cleans up some related code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# c39e50b4 01-May-2006 Victor V. Vengerov <Victor.Vengerov@oktetlabs.ru>

[PATCH] uml: fix iomem list traversal

We need to walk the region list properly.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# aa783a8f 01-May-2006 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Update UML kernel/physmem.c to use rb_parent() accessor macro

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>


# 22a9835c 27-Mar-2006 Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>

[PATCH] unify PFN_* macros

Just about every architecture defines some macros to do operations on pfns.
They're all virtually identical. This patch consolidates all of them.

One minor glitch is that at least i386 uses them in a very skeletal header
file. To keep away from #include dependency hell, I stuck the new
definitions in a new, isolated header.

Of all of the implementations, sh64 is the only one that varied by a bit.
It used some masks to ensure that any sign-extension got ripped away before
the arithmetic is done. This has been posted to that sh64 maintainers and
the development list.

Compiles on x86, x86_64, ia64 and ppc64.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 70dc991d 22-Mar-2006 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

[PATCH] remove set_page_count(page, 0) users (outside mm)

A couple of places set_page_count(page, 1) that don't need to.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 3dfd95b3 01-Feb-2006 Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

[PATCH] uml: fix "apples/bananas" typo

Fix stupid typo.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# ae173816 07-Nov-2005 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

[PATCH] uml: big memory fixes

A number of fixes to improve behavior when large physical memory sizes
are specified:

- libc files need -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 because there are unavoidable uses
of non-64 interfaces in libc

- some %d need to be %u

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# d99c4022 10-Sep-2005 Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

[PATCH] uml: inline mk_pte and various friends

Turns out that, for UML, a *lot* of VM-related trivial functions are not
inlined but rather normal functions.

In other sections of UML code, this is justified by having files which
interact with the host and cannot therefore include kernel headers, but in
this case there's no such justification.

I've had to turn many of them to macros because of missing declarations. While
doing this, I've decided to reuse some already existing macros.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# d67b569f 07-Jul-2005 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

[PATCH] uml: skas0 - separate kernel address space on stock hosts

UML has had two modes of operation - an insecure, slow mode (tt mode) in
which the kernel is mapped into every process address space which requires
no host kernel modifications, and a secure, faster mode (skas mode) in
which the UML kernel is in a separate host address space, which requires a
patch to the host kernel.

This patch implements something very close to skas mode for hosts which
don't support skas - I'm calling this skas0. It provides the security of
the skas host patch, and some of the performance gains.

The two main things that are provided by the skas patch, /proc/mm and
PTRACE_FAULTINFO, are implemented in a way that require no host patch.

For the remote address space changing stuff (mmap, munmap, and mprotect),
we set aside two pages in the process above its stack, one of which
contains a little bit of code which can call mmap et al.

To update the address space, the system call information (system call
number and arguments) are written to the stub page above the code. The
%esp is set to the beginning of the data, the %eip is set the the start of
the stub, and it repeatedly pops the information into its registers and
makes the system call until it sees a system call number of zero. This is
to amortize the cost of the context switch across multiple address space
updates.

When the updates are done, it SIGSTOPs itself, and the kernel process
continues what it was doing.

For a PTRACE_FAULTINFO replacement, we set up a SIGSEGV handler in the
child, and let it handle segfaults rather than nullifying them. The
handler is in the same page as the mmap stub. The second page is used as
the stack. The handler reads cr2 and err from the sigcontext, sticks them
at the base of the stack in a faultinfo struct, and SIGSTOPs itself. The
kernel then reads the faultinfo and handles the fault.

A complication on x86_64 is that this involves resetting the registers to
the segfault values when the process is inside the kill system call. This
breaks on x86_64 because %rcx will contain %rip because you tell SYSRET
where to return to by putting the value in %rcx. So, this corrupts $rcx on
return from the segfault. To work around this, I added an
arch_finish_segv, which on x86 does nothing, but which on x86_64 ptraces
the child back through the sigreturn. This causes %rcx to be restored by
sigreturn and avoids the corruption. Ultimately, I think I will replace
this with the trick of having it send itself a blocked signal which will be
unblocked by the sigreturn. This will allow it to be stopped just after
the sigreturn, and PTRACE_SYSCALLed without all the back-and-forth of
PTRACE_SYSCALLing it through sigreturn.

This runs on a stock host, so theoretically (and hopefully), tt mode isn't
needed any more. We need to make sure that this is better in every way
than tt mode, though. I'm concerned about the speed of address space
updates and page fault handling, since they involve extra round-trips to
the child. We can amortize the round-trip cost for large address space
updates by writing all of the operations to the data page and having the
child execute them all at the same time. This will help fork and exec, but
not page faults, since they involve only one page.

I can't think of any way to help page faults, except to add something like
PTRACE_FAULTINFO to the host. There is PTRACE_SIGINFO, but UML doesn't use
siginfo for SIGSEGV (or anything else) because there isn't enough
information in the siginfo struct to handle page faults (the faulting
operation type is missing). Adding that would make PTRACE_SIGINFO a usable
equivalent to PTRACE_FAULTINFO.

As for the code itself:

- The system call stub is in arch/um/kernel/sys-$(SUBARCH)/stub.S. It is
put in its own section of the binary along with stub_segv_handler in
arch/um/kernel/skas/process.c. This is manipulated with run_syscall_stub
in arch/um/kernel/skas/mem_user.c. syscall_stub will execute any system
call at all, but it's only used for mmap, munmap, and mprotect.

- The x86_64 stub calls sigreturn by hand rather than allowing the normal
sigreturn to happen, because the normal sigreturn is a SA_RESTORER in
UML's address space provided by libc. Needless to say, this is not
available in the child's address space. Also, it does a couple of odd
pops before that which restore the stack to the state it was in at the
time the signal handler was called.

- There is a new field in the arch mmu_context, which is now a union.
This is the pid to be manipulated rather than the /proc/mm file
descriptor. Code which deals with this now checks proc_mm to see whether
it should use the usual skas code or the new code.

- userspace_tramp is now used to create a new host process for every UML
process, rather than one per UML processor. It checks proc_mm and
ptrace_faultinfo to decide whether to map in the pages above its stack.

- start_userspace now makes CLONE_VM conditional on proc_mm since we need
separate address spaces now.

- switch_mm_skas now just sets userspace_pid[0] to the new pid rather
than PTRACE_SWITCH_MM. There is an addition to userspace which updates
its idea of the pid being manipulated each time around the loop. This is
important on exec, when the pid will change underneath userspace().

- The stub page has a pte, but it can't be mapped in using tlb_flush
because it is part of tlb_flush. This is why it's required for it to be
mapped in by userspace_tramp.

Other random things:

- The stub section in uml.lds.S is page aligned. This page is written
out to the backing vm file in setup_physmem because it is mapped from
there into user processes.

- There's some confusion with TASK_SIZE now that there are a couple of
extra pages that the process can't use. TASK_SIZE is considered by the
elf code to be the usable process memory, which is reasonable, so it is
decreased by two pages. This confuses the definition of
USER_PGDS_IN_LAST_PML4, making it too small because of the rounding down
of the uneven division. So we round it to the nearest PGDIR_SIZE rather
than the lower one.

- I added a missing PT_SYSCALL_ARG6_OFFSET macro.

- um_mmu.h was made into a userspace-usable file.

- proc_mm and ptrace_faultinfo are globals which say whether the host
supports these features.

- There is a bad interaction between the mm.nr_ptes check at the end of
exit_mmap, stack randomization, and skas0. exit_mmap will stop freeing
pages at the PGDIR_SIZE boundary after the last vma. If the stack isn't
on the last page table page, the last pte page won't be freed, as it
should be since the stub ptes are there, and exit_mmap will BUG because
there is an unfreed page. To get around this, TASK_SIZE is set to the
next lowest PGDIR_SIZE boundary and mm->nr_ptes is decremented after the
calls to init_stub_pte. This ensures that we know the process stack (and
all other process mappings) will be below the top page table page, and
thus we know that mm->nr_ptes will be one too many, and can be
decremented.

Things that need fixing:

- We may need better assurrences that the stub code is PIC.

- The stub pte is set up in init_new_context_skas.

- alloc_pgdir is probably the right place.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 1da177e4 16-Apr-2005 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

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!