Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates for 5.1

2019-03-31 Thread pr-tracker-bot
The pull request you sent on Sun, 31 Mar 2019 10:39:43 -: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/915ee0da5ecb7ac7fd023ae36f01c47ce47a45d1 Thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 5.1

2019-03-31 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus up to: f560bd19d2fe ("x86/realmode: Make set_real_mode_mem() static inline") A pile of x86 updates: - Prevent exceeding he valid physical addre

Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates for 5.1

2019-03-24 Thread pr-tracker-bot
The pull request you sent on Sun, 24 Mar 2019 14:12:21 -: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/19caf581ba441659f1a71e9a5baed032fdcfceef Thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 5.1

2019-03-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus A set of x86 fixes: - Prevent potential NULL pointer dereferences in the HPET and HyperV code - Exclude the GART aperture from /proc/kcore to p

Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates for 5.0

2019-02-03 Thread pr-tracker-bot
The pull request you sent on Sun, 03 Feb 2019 17:16:07 +0100: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/24b888d8d59847871387aa3b241b524661070a6e Thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 5.0

2019-02-03 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus A few updates for x86: - Fix an unintended sign extension issue in the fault handling code - Rename the new resource control config switch so i

Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates for 5.0

2019-01-27 Thread pr-tracker-bot
The pull request you sent on Sun, 27 Jan 2019 12:05:08 +0100: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus has been merged into torvalds/linux.git: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/8a5f06056a25ac7dbca2b0505cc0fe8ffb6947c1 Thank you! -- Deet-doot-dot, I am a

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 5.0

2019-01-27 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus A set of fixes for x86: - Fix the swapped outb() parameters in the KASLR code - Fix the PKEY handling at fork which missed to preserve the pkey

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 5.0

2019-01-27 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus A set of fixes for x86: - Fix the swapped outb() parameters in the KASLR code - Fix the PKEY handling at fork which missed to preserve the pkey

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.19

2018-09-02 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus x86 specific updates for 4.19: Speculation: - Make the micro code check more robust - Make the L1TF memory limit depend on the internal c

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.19

2018-08-26 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus A pile of x86 fixes: - Correct the L!TF fallout on 32bit and the off by one in the 'too much RAM for protection' calculation. - Add a helpfu

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.18

2018-07-08 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus A set of fixes for x86: - Prevent an out-of-bounds access in mtrr_write() - Break a circular dependency in the new hyperv IPI acceleration co

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.18

2018-06-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus A set of fixes for x86: - Make Xen PV guest deal with speculative store bypass correctly - Address more fallout from the 5-Level pagetable han

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.18

2018-06-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus A pile of x86 updates and fixes: - Fix the (late) fallout from the vector management rework causing hlist corruption and irq descriptor refere

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.17

2018-04-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus Another set of x86 related updates: - Fix the long broken x32 version of the IPC user space headers which was noticed by Arnd Bergman in cours

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.17

2018-04-15 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus A set of fixes and updates for x86: - Address a swiotlb regression which was caused by the recent DMA rework and made driver fail because dma_

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.16

2018-02-18 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus Three patchlets to correct HIGHMEM64G and CMPXCHG64 dependencies in Kconfig when CPU selections are explicitely set to M586 or M686. Thanks,

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.16

2018-02-04 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus A small set of changes: - A fixup for kexec related to 5-level paging mode. That covers most of the cases except kexec from a 5-level kernel

Re: [GIT PULL] x86 updates for v4.15

2017-11-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > > Just did 2 suspend cycles (once to RAM and once to disk) on my x230 > > with your tree from right now and it looks ok so far. So it could be > > machine- and config-specific... > > .. and it's not repeata

Re: [GIT PULL] x86 updates for v4.15

2017-11-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 1:48 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Just did 2 suspend cycles (once to RAM and once to disk) on my x230 > with your tree from right now and it looks ok so far. So it could be > machine- and config-specific... .. and it's not repeatable for me. I rebooted pretty quickly, an

Re: [GIT PULL] x86 updates for v4.15

2017-11-14 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 09:02:36PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:24 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > >git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git > > x86-asm-for-linus > > Hmm #2. > > My laptop had odd SIGBUS and IO errors after a suspend/resume cycle >

Re: [GIT PULL] x86 updates for v4.15

2017-11-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:24 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-asm-for-linus Hmm #2. My laptop had odd SIGBUS and IO errors after a suspend/resume cycle when running commit d6ec9d9a4def, which is after my merge of the x86 core changes.

[GIT PULL] x86 updates for v4.15

2017-11-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
Linus, Please pull the latest x86-asm-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-asm-for-linus # HEAD: 91a6a6cfee8ad34ea4cc10a54c0765edfe437cdb Merge branch 'linus' into x86/asm, to resolve conflict Note that in this cycle most of the x86 topic

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.13

2017-07-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus The x86 updates contain: - A fix for a longstanding PAT bug, where PAT was reported on CPUs that do not support it, which leads to wrong

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.9

2016-10-08 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus A pile of regression fixes and updates: - Address the fallout of the patches which made the cpuid - nodeid relation permanent: Handling of i

[git pull] x86 updates for 4.6

2016-04-03 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus this lot contains: - Some fixups for the fallout of the topology consolidation which unearthed AMD/Intel inconsistencies - Docume

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.5

2016-02-28 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus This update contains: - Hopefully the last ASM CLAC fixups - A fix for the Quark family related to the IMR lock which makes kexec work

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.5

2016-02-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus Two small fixlets for x86: - Prevent a KASAN false positive in thread_saved_pc() - Fix a 32-bit truncation problem in the x86 numa code Thanks

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.5

2016-01-31 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus A bit on the largish side due to a series of fixes for a regression in the x86 vector management which was introduced in 4.3. This work was started

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.4

2015-11-15 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus A couple of fixes and updates related to x86: - Fix the W+X check regression on XEN - The real fix for the low identity map trainwreck - Prob

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.3

2015-10-11 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus Change Matt Fleming's email address in the maintainers file. Thanks, tglx --> Matt Fleming (1): MAINTAINERS: Chang

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 4.2

2015-07-11 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus This updates contains: - The high latency PIT detection fix, which slipped through the cracks for rc1 - A regression fix for the early pr

Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates for 3.11

2013-07-15 Thread Kees Cook
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> Fail on me. I got rushed and sloppy. I really need to automate looking >> for warnings pre-commit and not rely on Fengguang's robot. > > /me too. I took it for granted that this was tested b

Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates for 3.11

2013-07-15 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Fail on me. I got rushed and sloppy. I really need to automate looking > for warnings pre-commit and not rely on Fengguang's robot. /me too. I took it for granted that this was tested by Ingos machinery w/o noticing that it went in just when Ingo lef

Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates for 3.11

2013-07-13 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Fail on me. I got rushed and sloppy. I really need to automate looking for warnings pre-commit and not rely on Fengguang's robot. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at

Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates for 3.11

2013-07-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > >* Guarantee IDT page alignment What the F*CK, guys? This piece-of-shit commit is marked for stable, but you clearly never even test-compiled it, did you? Because on x86-64 (the which is the only place where the patch matters), I don

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 3.11

2013-07-13 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus * Guarantee IDT page alignment * Revert an UEFI patch which caused a regression * Add a missing check for EFI runtime services * Fix fo

[git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
Linus, please pull the latest x86 git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git Note: three (well-tested) lguest fixlets are included as well. Thanks, Ingo --> Adrian Bunk (1): x86: don't make swapper_pg_pmd global Ahmed S

Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates

2008-02-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happened to the kernel-doc x86/cpu/mtrr patch, which you applied, > according to your email reply... you can see the latest & greatest arch/x86 patches in the x86.git#testing branch. Here is how you can track it: http://people.redhat.com/min

Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates

2008-02-19 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:13:13 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > Linus, > > > > please pull x86 updates from: > > > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git > > master > > > > The major part of this pull are spa

Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates

2008-02-19 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:13:13 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Linus, > > please pull x86 updates from: > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git > master > > The major part of this pull are sparse fixes, section fixups, > documentation updates and cleanup

[GIT pull] x86 updates

2008-02-19 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull x86 updates from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git master The major part of this pull are sparse fixes, section fixups, documentation updates and cleanups. The bugfix part is: - fix the ioremap page_is_ram() protection - exclud

[GIT Pull] x86 updates

2008-02-18 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull x86 updates from ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git The updates are: - fix the fallout of the CPA changes. This fixes the review issues and some other problems, which were discovered by extended testcases. - fix for N

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> thanks, applied - this first looked like a KVM item, that's why i >> havent added it. [Btw., feel free to push it via kvm.git as well - as >> long as you are sure it does not break the build ;-) ] > > Yeah, I'm queuing it as well, it will get there one

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-14 Thread Balbir Singh
Avi Kivity wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: >> * Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Ingo, could you also please consider the KVM build fix at >>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120262794315024&w=2 which has been >>> acked by Avi. I suspect this patch should be route through git-x86

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-14 Thread Avi Kivity
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ingo, could you also please consider the KVM build fix at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120262794315024&w=2 which has been acked by Avi. I suspect this patch should be route through git-x86 since it affects arch/x86/Kconfig.

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:19:53PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Thomas Gleixner (1): > > > x86: EFI: fix use of unitialized variable and the cache logic > > > > Your honor, I would like to re

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo, could you also please consider the KVM build fix at > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120262794315024&w=2 which has been > acked by Avi. I suspect this patch should be route through git-x86 > since it affects arch/x86/Kconfig. thanks, appli

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Thomas Gleixner (1): > > x86: EFI: fix use of unitialized variable and the cache logic > > Your honor, I would like to register a differing opinion... As i mentioned it (in the portion of my email th

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thomas Gleixner (1): > x86: EFI: fix use of unitialized variable and the cache logic Your honor, I would like to register a differing opinion... I submitted that fix originally in a different form, but it got finally stripped down to this. However

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-13 Thread Balbir Singh
Ingo, could you also please consider the KVM build fix at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120262794315024&w=2 which has been acked by Avi. I suspect this patch should be route through git-x86 since it affects arch/x86/Kconfig. Balbir PS: Modified cc's to reduce the noise. -- To unsubscribe fro

[git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
Linus, please pull the latest x86 git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git Shortlog and diffstat attached below. low-key fixes and updates. 2.6.25-rc1 looks pretty solid so far in terms of arch/x86 with no major regression reported against the 1000+

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > So Thomas, don't do this. I don't like it. The same way I didn't like > > seeing Ingo trying to mix in a kgdb pull into his x86 pull. Keep these > > thi

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-10 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > So Thomas, don't do this. I don't like it. The same way I didn't like > seeing Ingo trying to mix in a kgdb pull into his x86 pull. Keep these > things separate - git is *really* good at having multiple bran

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:24:50 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > Linus, > > > > please pull the pending x86 updates from: > > > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git > > master > > Hi Thomas, > can we please

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-09 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:24:50 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Linus, > > please pull the pending x86 updates from: > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git > master Hi Thomas, can we please get diffstats with git pull requests? (in the future) > The up

[git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the pending x86 updates from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git master The update contains: - a couple of bugfixes - CPA and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC improvements - x86 power management consolidation - GEODE updates - 32bit b

[git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
Linus, please pull the latest x86 git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git Shortlog attached below. It includes 16 x86 fixes, and 4 general fixes: - brk randomization fixes for ancient binaries - virtio trivial fix (acked by Rusty) - __FIN

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Ingo Molnar wrote: I also did a quick skimming of info ld - but no luck. Peter pointed me to "info gas", which has a "Sections and Relocation" chapter. Also see the ".section" directive under pseudo-ops (in the gas doc.) -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > btw., what's the practical consequence of getting these section > > flags wrong - for example writable data can end up in executable > > section accidentally and be marked readonly by RODATA? Or can > > anything more serious happen? (they cannot get

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Linus Torvalds wrote: Well, the real question is "what are the defaults" Well, I guess my point was that we shouldn't rely on the defaults. By default: .bssis (aw,nobits). .data is (aw,progbits). .rodata is (a,progbits). .text is (ax,progbits). But what about something like ".ini

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo, Thomas, > should we not do this? > > Otherwise, it seems we generate a section that isn't allocated? > > I think toolchain should add the right flags automatically for > sections that start with ".[ro]data" and ".text", but not for the > ke

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > The difference is quite simple: > > a - this section occupies address space > w - this section is writable > x - this section is executable > progbits- this section has data i

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Sam Ravnborg wrote: Technically we should also specify @progbits or @nobits on sections, however, I think @progbits is the default. I have on my todo list to do so. But I wanted to investigate a bit more since I do not yet fully understand the difference. And we have to use %progbits and %no

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-05 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:09:28PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > >btw., what's the practical consequence of getting these section flags > >wrong - for example writable data can end up in executable section > >accidentally and be marked readonly by RODATA? Or can anything

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-05 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:05:08PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:47:07AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > > > > Ingo, Thomas, > > > should we not do this? > > > > > > Otherwise, it seems we generate a section t

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Ingo Molnar wrote: btw., what's the practical consequence of getting these section flags wrong - for example writable data can end up in executable section accidentally and be marked readonly by RODATA? Or can anything more serious happen? (they cannot get into any of the discarded sections,

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:47:07AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > Ingo, Thomas, > > should we not do this? > > > > Otherwise, it seems we generate a section that isn't allocated? > > > > I think toolchain should add the right flags automa

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Linus Torvalds wrote: Ingo, Thomas, should we not do this? Otherwise, it seems we generate a section that isn't allocated? I think toolchain should add the right flags automatically for sections that start with ".[ro]data" and ".text", but not for the kernel-specific ".init.*" sections.

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-05 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:47:07AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Ingo, Thomas, > should we not do this? > > Otherwise, it seems we generate a section that isn't allocated? > > I think toolchain should add the right flags automatically for sections > that start with ".[ro]data" and ".text

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ingo, Thomas, should we not do this? Otherwise, it seems we generate a section that isn't allocated? I think toolchain should add the right flags automatically for sections that start with ".[ro]data" and ".text", but not for the kernel-specific ".init.*" sections. Linus --

[git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
Linus, please pull the latest x86 git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git Find the shortlog below. 78 commits: most of them are fixes, cleanups and low-risk items. There is one group of higher-risk items: the now pretty much rounded up CPA/ioremap

[git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
Linus, please pull the latest x86 git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git Fixes and debug patches only. Thanks, Ingo --> Alexander van Heukelum (1): x86: avoid section mismatch involving arch_register_cpu Harvey Harri

Re: [git pull] x86 updates

2008-01-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linus, please pull the latest x86 git tree from: > >git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git > > Thanks! just updated it: added a fix for a sparsemem bootup crash on large-RAM boxes, and removed the documentation update

[git pull] x86 updates

2008-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
[ resent with lkml Cc:-ed too. ] Linus, please pull the latest x86 git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git Thanks! Ingo --> Bernhard Walle (1): x86: fix RTC_AIE with CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC Mike Frysinger (1):

Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates for 2.6.24

2007-11-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Heh. I applied it just before pulling, so it's there twice. .. btw, Thomas, you forgot to add your sign-off to your version. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates for 2.6.24

2007-11-17 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Just added Sam's latest fix for the x86 build mechanism on top of the > patches below. Heh. I applied it just before pulling, so it's there twice. Git obviously then merged it without problems, so I didn't even notice until you mentioned it (be

Re: [GIT pull] x86 updates for 2.6.24

2007-11-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Linus, > > please pull x86 updates for 2.6.24 from: > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git > master > > Thanks, > > tglx FYI, Just added Sam's latest fix for the x86 build mechanism on top of the patch

[GIT pull] x86 updates for 2.6.24

2007-11-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull x86 updates for 2.6.24 from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git master Thanks, tglx Andreas Herrmann (2): x86: fix cpu-hotplug regression x86: show cpuinfo only for online CPUs David P. Reed (3): ntp: fix typo

[GIT pull] x86 updates

2007-11-09 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull x86 updates from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git master Thanks, tglx Chuck Ebbert (1): x86 - 32-bit ptrace emulation mishandles 6th arg Randy Dunlap (1): voyager: use struct instead of PARAM Roland McGrath (1):

Re: [patchlet] Re: [Git pull] x86 updates

2007-10-24 Thread Hiroshi Shimamoto
Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 23:02 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> Linus, >> >> please pull from: >> >> ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git >> >> This contains a couple of bug fixes and a large cleanup and >> unification section from various a

Re: [patchlet] Re: [Git pull] x86 updates

2007-10-24 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 09:17 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > X86_32 build fix to commit 62a31a03b3d2a9d20e7a073e2cd9b27bfb7d6a3f > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > thanks - this is needed for CONFIG_KEXEC builds. Adde

Re: [patchlet] Re: [Git pull] x86 updates

2007-10-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > X86_32 build fix to commit 62a31a03b3d2a9d20e7a073e2cd9b27bfb7d6a3f > > > > Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > thanks - this is needed for CONFIG_KEXEC builds. Added to the queue. hm, CONFIG_KEXEC builds fine even on 32-bit here -

Re: [patchlet] Re: [Git pull] x86 updates

2007-10-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 23:02 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Linus, > > > > please pull from: > > > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git > > > > This contains a couple of bug fixes and a large cleanup and > >

[patchlet] Re: [Git pull] x86 updates

2007-10-23 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 23:02 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Linus, > > please pull from: > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git > > This contains a couple of bug fixes and a large cleanup and > unification section from various authors. X86_32 build fix to

[Git pull] x86 updates

2007-10-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git This contains a couple of bug fixes and a large cleanup and unification section from various authors. Thanks, tglx --- Adrian Bunk (1): x86: add instrumentation menu Alejandro Marti