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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 70 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c | 15 |
3 files changed, 77 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 7f43b040311..1d96efec5e8 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -301,8 +301,68 @@ now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just point out some special detail about the sign-off. +12) The canonical patch format -12) More references for submitting patches +The canonical patch subject line is: + + Subject: [PATCH 001/123] [<area>:] <explanation> + +The canonical patch message body contains the following: + + - A "from" line specifying the patch author. + + - An empty line. + + - The body of the explanation, which will be copied to the + permanent changelog to describe this patch. + + - The "Signed-off-by:" lines, described above, which will + also go in the changelog. + + - A marker line containing simply "---". + + - Any additional comments not suitable for the changelog. + + - The actual patch (diff output). + +The Subject line format makes it very easy to sort the emails +alphabetically by subject line - pretty much any email reader will +support that - since because the sequence number is zero-padded, +the numerical and alphabetic sort is the same. + +See further details on how to phrase the "<explanation>" in the +"Subject:" line in Andrew Morton's "The perfect patch", referenced +below. + +The "from" line must be the very first line in the message body, +and has the form: + + From: Original Author <author@example.com> + +The "from" line specifies who will be credited as the author of the +patch in the permanent changelog. If the "from" line is missing, +then the "From:" line from the email header will be used to determine +the patch author in the changelog. + +The explanation body will be committed to the permanent source +changelog, so should make sense to a competent reader who has long +since forgotten the immediate details of the discussion that might +have led to this patch. + +The "---" marker line serves the essential purpose of marking for patch +handling tools where the changelog message ends. + +One good use for the additional comments after the "---" marker is for +a diffstat, to show what files have changed, and the number of inserted +and deleted lines per file. A diffstat is especially useful on bigger +patches. Other comments relevant only to the moment or the maintainer, +not suitable for the permanent changelog, should also go here. + +See more details on the proper patch format in the following +references. + + +13) More references for submitting patches Andrew Morton, "The perfect patch" (tpp). <http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt> @@ -310,6 +370,14 @@ Andrew Morton, "The perfect patch" (tpp). Jeff Garzik, "Linux kernel patch submission format." <http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html> +Greg KH, "How to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer" + <http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/03/31/> + +Kernel Documentation/CodingStyle + <http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/Documentation/CodingStyle> + +Linus Torvald's mail on the canonical patch format: + <http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/183> ----------------------------------- diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S b/arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S index 76cc0cb5fc2..e38671c922b 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S @@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ entUna: stq $26, 208($sp) stq $27, 216($sp) stq $28, 224($sp) + mov $sp, $19 stq $gp, 232($sp) lda $8, 0x3fff stq $31, 248($sp) diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c index 6f509a644bd..f9d12319e0f 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c @@ -446,16 +446,15 @@ struct unaligned_stat { /* Macro for exception fixup code to access integer registers. */ -#define una_reg(r) (regs.regs[(r) >= 16 && (r) <= 18 ? (r)+19 : (r)]) +#define una_reg(r) (regs->regs[(r) >= 16 && (r) <= 18 ? (r)+19 : (r)]) asmlinkage void do_entUna(void * va, unsigned long opcode, unsigned long reg, - unsigned long a3, unsigned long a4, unsigned long a5, - struct allregs regs) + struct allregs *regs) { long error, tmp1, tmp2, tmp3, tmp4; - unsigned long pc = regs.pc - 4; + unsigned long pc = regs->pc - 4; const struct exception_table_entry *fixup; unaligned[0].count++; @@ -636,7 +635,7 @@ got_exception: printk("Forwarding unaligned exception at %lx (%lx)\n", pc, newpc); - (®s)->pc = newpc; + regs->pc = newpc; return; } @@ -650,7 +649,7 @@ got_exception: current->comm, current->pid); printk("pc = [<%016lx>] ra = [<%016lx>] ps = %04lx\n", - pc, una_reg(26), regs.ps); + pc, una_reg(26), regs->ps); printk("r0 = %016lx r1 = %016lx r2 = %016lx\n", una_reg(0), una_reg(1), una_reg(2)); printk("r3 = %016lx r4 = %016lx r5 = %016lx\n", @@ -670,10 +669,10 @@ got_exception: una_reg(22), una_reg(23), una_reg(24)); printk("r25= %016lx r27= %016lx r28= %016lx\n", una_reg(25), una_reg(27), una_reg(28)); - printk("gp = %016lx sp = %p\n", regs.gp, ®s+1); + printk("gp = %016lx sp = %p\n", regs->gp, regs+1); dik_show_code((unsigned int *)pc); - dik_show_trace((unsigned long *)(®s+1)); + dik_show_trace((unsigned long *)(regs+1)); if (test_and_set_thread_flag (TIF_DIE_IF_KERNEL)) { printk("die_if_kernel recursion detected.\n"); |