linux-stable/arch/mips
Chris Metcalf 48b25c43e6 [PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls
When using the "compat" APIs, architectures will generally want to
be able to make direct syscalls to msgsnd(), shmctl(), etc., and
in the kernel we would want them to be handled directly by
compat_sys_xxx() functions, as is true for other compat syscalls.

However, for historical reasons, several of the existing compat IPC
syscalls do not do this.  semctl() expects a pointer to the fourth
argument, instead of the fourth argument itself.  msgsnd(), msgrcv()
and shmat() expect arguments in different order.

This change adds an ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC config option that can be
set to preserve this behavior for ports that use it (x86, sparc, powerpc,
s390, and mips).  No actual semantics are changed for those architectures,
and there is only a minimal amount of code refactoring in ipc/compat.c.

Newer architectures like tile (and perhaps future architectures such
as arm64 and unicore64) should not select this option, and thus can
avoid having any IPC-specific code at all in their architecture-specific
compat layer.  In the same vein, if this option is not selected, IPC_64
mode is assumed, since that's what the <asm-generic> headers expect.

The workaround code in "tile" for msgsnd() and msgrcv() is removed
with this change; it also fixes the bug that shmat() and semctl() were
not being properly handled.

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2012-03-15 13:13:38 -04:00
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alchemy MIPS: Alchemy: Increase minimum timeout for 32kHz timer. 2012-02-20 18:33:18 +01:00
ar7 Merge branches 'next/ar7', 'next/ath79', 'next/bcm63xx', 'next/bmips', 'next/cavium', 'next/generic', 'next/kprobes', 'next/lantiq', 'next/perf' and 'next/raza' into mips-for-linux-next 2012-01-11 15:42:31 +01:00
ath79 MIPS: ATH79: Avoid a kernel bug on AR913X 2012-02-20 18:33:19 +01:00
bcm47xx MIPS: Fix up inconsistency in panic() string argument. 2011-12-07 22:01:45 +00:00
bcm63xx Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2012-01-14 13:05:21 -08:00
boot MIPS: Alchemy: Basic support for the DB1300 board. 2011-12-07 22:02:06 +00:00
cavium-octeon Merge branches 'next/ar7', 'next/ath79', 'next/bcm63xx', 'next/bmips', 'next/cavium', 'next/generic', 'next/kprobes', 'next/lantiq', 'next/perf' and 'next/raza' into mips-for-linux-next 2012-01-11 15:42:31 +01:00
cobalt MIPS: Mark cascade and low level interrupts IRQF_NO_THREAD 2011-09-21 17:52:15 +02:00
configs MIPS: PowerTV: Fix defconfigs for coverage builds 2012-02-20 18:33:20 +01:00
dec MIPS: irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED 2011-12-07 22:03:45 +00:00
emma MIPS: Yosemite, Emma: Fix off-by-two in arcs_cmdline buffer size check 2011-11-08 12:35:29 +00:00
fw
include/asm MIPS: Alchemy: Update Au1300 inlined GPIO macros 2012-02-20 18:33:18 +01:00
jazz Merge branch 'next/generic' into mips-for-linux-next 2012-01-11 15:41:47 +01:00
jz4740 MIPS: Fix up inconsistency in panic() string argument. 2011-12-07 22:01:45 +00:00
kernel MIPS: traps.c: Fix typo 2012-02-20 18:33:20 +01:00
lantiq Merge branch 'next/generic' into mips-for-linux-next 2012-01-11 15:41:47 +01:00
lasat MIPS: Mark cascade and low level interrupts IRQF_NO_THREAD 2011-09-21 17:52:15 +02:00
lib mips: use the the PCI controller's io_map_base 2012-01-31 23:20:30 +02:00
loongson MIPS: irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED 2011-12-07 22:03:45 +00:00
math-emu MIPS Kprobes: Refactor branch emulation 2011-12-07 22:04:03 +00:00
mipssim atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
mm MIPS: fault.c: Port OOM changes to do_page_fault 2012-02-20 18:33:19 +01:00
mti-malta MIPS: irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED 2011-12-07 22:03:45 +00:00
netlogic MIPS: Netlogic: Mark Netlogic chips as SMT capable 2011-12-07 22:04:57 +00:00
oprofile
pci MIPS: PCI: use list_for_each_entry() for bus->devices traversal 2012-02-20 18:33:19 +01:00
pmc-sierra MIPS: PCI: use list_for_each_entry() for bus->devices traversal 2012-02-20 18:33:19 +01:00
pnx833x
pnx8550 MIPS: irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED 2011-12-07 22:03:45 +00:00
power
powertv Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
rb532 mips: add export.h to files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE 2011-10-31 19:30:57 -04:00
sgi-ip22 MIPS: irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED 2011-12-07 22:03:45 +00:00
sgi-ip27 Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2012-01-14 13:05:21 -08:00
sgi-ip32 MIPS: irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED 2011-12-07 22:03:45 +00:00
sibyte MIPS: Sibyte: drop select of SIBYTE_CFE 2011-11-13 21:27:34 +01:00
sni MIPS: irq: Remove IRQF_DISABLED 2011-12-07 22:03:45 +00:00
txx9 MIPS: txx9 7segled fix struct device has no member 2012-02-20 18:33:18 +01:00
vr41xx mips: fix implicit smp.h usage in various files. 2011-10-31 19:30:55 -04:00
wrppmc
Kbuild
Kbuild.platforms MIPS: XLR, XLS: Move makefile bits to were they belong. 2011-07-20 23:12:11 +01:00
Kconfig [PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls 2012-03-15 13:13:38 -04:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile MIPS: BMIPS: Add CFLAGS, Makefile entries for BMIPS 2011-12-07 22:03:17 +00:00