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2007-02-05[S390] boot from NSS supportHongjie Yang
Add support to boot from a named saved segment (NSS). Signed-off-by: Hongjie Yang <hongjie@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-05[S390] noexec protectionGerald Schaefer
This provides a noexec protection on s390 hardware. Our hardware does not have any bits left in the pte for a hw noexec bit, so this is a different approach using shadow page tables and a special addressing mode that allows separate address spaces for code and data. As a special feature of our "secondary-space" addressing mode, separate page tables can be specified for the translation of data addresses (storage operands) and instruction addresses. The shadow page table is used for the instruction addresses and the standard page table for the data addresses. The shadow page table is linked to the standard page table by a pointer in page->lru.next of the struct page corresponding to the page that contains the standard page table (since page->private is not really private with the pte_lock and the page table pages are not in the LRU list). Depending on the software bits of a pte, it is either inserted into both page tables or just into the standard (data) page table. Pages of a vma that does not have the VM_EXEC bit set get mapped only in the data address space. Any try to execute code on such a page will cause a page translation exception. The standard reaction to this is a SIGSEGV with two exceptions: the two system call opcodes 0x0a77 (sys_sigreturn) and 0x0aad (sys_rt_sigreturn) are allowed. They are stored by the kernel to the signal stack frame. Unfortunately, the signal return mechanism cannot be modified to use an SA_RESTORER because the exception unwinding code depends on the system call opcode stored behind the signal stack frame. This feature requires that user space is executed in secondary-space mode and the kernel in home-space mode, which means that the addressing modes need to be switched and that the noexec protection only works for user space. After switching the addressing modes, we cannot use the mvcp/mvcs instructions anymore to copy between kernel and user space. A new mvcos instruction has been added to the z9 EC/BC hardware which allows to copy between arbitrary address spaces, but on older hardware the page tables need to be walked manually. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-05[S390] Get rid of a lot of sparse warnings.Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-12-07[PATCH] cleanup asm/setup.h userspace visibilityAdrian Bunk
Make the contents of the userspace asm/setup.h header consistent on all architectures: - export setup.h to userspace on all architectures - export only COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to userspace - frv: move COMMAND_LINE_SIZE from param.h - i386: remove duplicate COMMAND_LINE_SIZE from param.h - arm: - export ATAGs to userspace - change u8/u16/u32 to __u8/__u16/__u32 Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-04[S390] Cleanup memory_chunk array usage.Heiko Carstens
Need this at yet another file and don't want to add yet another extern... Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-10-01[PATCH] Directed yield: direct yield of spinlocks for s390.Martin Schwidefsky
Use the new diagnose 0x9c in the spinlock implementation for s390. It yields the remaining timeslice of the virtual cpu that tries to acquire a lock to the virtual cpu that is the current holder of the lock. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-20[S390] Use alternative user-copy operations for new hardware.Gerald Schaefer
This introduces new user-copy operations which are optimized for copying more than 256 Bytes on new hardware. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20[S390] convert some assembler to C.Heiko Carstens
Convert GET_IPL_DEVICE assembler macro to C function. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20[S390] ipl/dump on panic.Michael Holzheu
It is now possible to specify a ccw/fcp dump device which is used to automatically create a system dump in case of a kernel panic. The dump device can be configured under /sys/firmware/dump. In addition it is now possible to specify a ccw/fcp device which is used for the next reboot of Linux. The reipl device can be configured under /sys/firmware/reipl. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20[S390] initrd vs. bootmem bitmap.Heiko Carstens
Move initrd if the bitmap of the bootmem allocator would overwrite it. In addition this patch sets the default size and address of the initrd to 0. Therefore all boot loaders must set the initrd size and address correctly. This is especially relevant for ftp boot via HMC/SE, where this change requires a special patch file entry in the .ins file which sets these two values contained at address 0x10408 and 0x10410. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-07-12[S390] cpu_relax() is supposed to have barrier() semantics.Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-02-11[PATCH] s390: add #ifdef __KERNEL__ to asm-s390/setup.hHeiko Carstens
Based on a patch from Maximilian Attems <maks@sternwelten.at> . Nothing in asm-s390/setup.h is of interest for user space. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30[PATCH] s390: export ipl device parametersHeiko Carstens
Sysfs interface to export ipl device parameters. Dependent on the ipl type the interface will look like this: - ccw ipl: /sys/firmware/ipl/device /ipl_type - fcp ipl: /sys/firmware/ipl/binary_parameter /bootprog /br_lba /device /ipl_type /lun /scp_data /wwpn - otherwise (unknown that is): /sys/firmware/ipl/ipl_type Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
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!