Al Viro [Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:57:26 +0000 (19:57 -0400)]
make sure that we always have a return path from kernel_execve()
The only place where kernel_execve() is called without a way to
return to the caller of kernel_thread() callback is kernel_post().
Reorganize kernel_init()/kernel_post() - instead of the former
calling the latter in the end (and getting freed by it), have the
latter *begin* with calling the former (and turn the latter into
kernel_thread() callback, of course).
Al Viro [Wed, 5 Sep 2012 22:53:18 +0000 (18:53 -0400)]
alpha: don't bother passing switch_stack separately from regs
It's needed only in setup_sigcontext() and it's always reg - <constant>;
no point passing it all way down through the call chain. This is just
the signal.c side of that stuff; next will come the asm glue one...
Al Viro [Wed, 5 Sep 2012 22:30:34 +0000 (18:30 -0400)]
alpha: take SIGPENDING/NOTIFY_RESUME loop into signal.c
Turn the slow side of work_pending into C function, including all
the looping. What we get out of that:
* we do _not_ call get_signal_to_deliver() with IRQs disabled
anymore
* no need to save/restore volatiles on each pass if there
turns to be more than one (unlikely, but still)
* all double-restart prevention is in C now.
* glue gets simpler.
Al Viro [Wed, 5 Sep 2012 22:08:40 +0000 (18:08 -0400)]
alpha: simplify TIF_NEED_RESCHED handling
In case we have both NEED_RESCHED and SIGPENDING/NOTIFY_RESUME,
handle the latter first. We'll get to original priorities in
the next commit, but now that allows to simplify the treatment
of NEED_RESCHED-only case nicely. Namely, now there no need to
preserve the data for restarts across the call of schedule() in
$work_resched; we can get there only if we had either returned
from syscall without SIGPENDING (in which case we should've
had no restart-worthy return value and want no restarts) or
already got through do_notify_resume() call (in which case we
want no restarts anymore). So we can just slap 0 into $19
instead of preserving it (and $20).
Al Viro [Sat, 26 May 2012 05:07:39 +0000 (01:07 -0400)]
x86: get rid of duplicate code in case of CONFIG_VM86
no need to have the call of do_notify_resume() + checks around it
duplicated for vm86 case - a bit of rearranging of ifdefs and we'll
have a perfectly fine copy to jump back to.
Al Viro [Sat, 26 May 2012 04:25:15 +0000 (00:25 -0400)]
unicore32: remove pointless test
we can get into work_pending only if at least one of NEED_RESCHED,
SIGPENDING or NOTIFY_RESUME is set. So once we'd found no NEED_RESCHED,
there's no need to check that one of the other two is set.
Al Viro [Sat, 19 May 2012 05:13:01 +0000 (01:13 -0400)]
parisc: don't bother looping in do_signal()
entry.S code had been looping until no pending signals are left
since 2005 anyway; no need to bother with that in do_signal()
itself. If the failure to set a sigframe up raises SIGSEGV,
we'll just pick it up the next time around the loop(s) in entry.S
anyway.
Al Viro [Fri, 1 Jun 2012 18:22:01 +0000 (14:22 -0400)]
sanitize tsk_is_polling()
Make default just return 0. The current default (checking
TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG) is taken to architectures that need it;
ones that don't do polling in their idle threads don't need
to defined TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG at all.
ia64 defined both TS_POLLING (used by its tsk_is_polling())
and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG (not used at all). Killed the latter...
Al Viro [Tue, 1 May 2012 03:37:41 +0000 (23:37 -0400)]
score: fix bogus restarts on sigreturn()
we *really* don't want to have restart logics hit when we are returning from
sigreturn() - random replacement of %r4 with -4 just because a signal had
been noticed from timer interrupt that came when %r4 happened to contain
-514 is not nice at all.
Al Viro [Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:06:34 +0000 (12:06 -0400)]
m68k: switch to generic sys_execve()/kernel_execve()
The tricky part here is that task_pt_regs() on m68k works *only* for
process inside do_signal(). However, we need something much simpler -
pt_regs of a process inside do_signal() may be at different offsets
from the stack bottom, depending on the way we'd entered the kernel,
but for a task inside sys_execve() it *is* at constant offset.
Moreover, for a kernel thread about to become a userland process the
same location is also fine - setting sp to that will leave the kernel
stack pointer at the very bottom of the kernel stack when we finally
switch to userland.
m68k: always set stack frame format for ColdFire on thread start
The stack frame "format" field needs to be explicitly set on thread creation
on ColdFire. For a normal long word aligned user stack pointer the frame
format is 0x4.
We were doing this for non-MMU ColdFire, but not for the case with MMU enabled.
So fix it so we always do it if targeting ColdFire.
The old code happend to rely on the stack frame format being inhereted from
the process calling exec. Furture changes means that may not always work,
so we really do want to set it explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Al Viro [Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:48:05 +0000 (15:48 -0400)]
powerpc: switch to generic sys_execve()/kernel_execve()
the only non-obvious part is that current_pt_regs() is really needed
here - task_pt_regs() is NULL for kernel threads; it's OK for ptrace
uses (the thing task_pt_regs() is intended for), but not for us.
Al Viro [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 19:05:11 +0000 (23:05 +0400)]
x86, um/x86: switch to generic sys_execve and kernel_execve
32bit wrapper is lost on that; 64bit one is *not*, since
we need to arrange for full pt_regs on stack when we call
sys_execve() and we need to load callee-saved ones from
there afterwards.
Al Viro [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 07:49:43 +0000 (11:49 +0400)]
arm: optimized current_pt_regs()
... no need to read current_thread_info()->task only to
feed it to task_thread_page() immediately afterwards.
Moreover, not using current_thread_info() at all ends
up with better assembler - we need a location very close
to the top of kernel stack page and it's actually better
to do or with 0x1fff, followed be subtracting a small
constant than and with ~0x1fff, followed by adding a large
one. Both & and | would be a couple of insns (mvn lsr/mvn lsl
for |, a pair of bic for &), but the following addition
would cost a pair of add while the subtraction ends up
as a single sub.
Al Viro [Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:38:55 +0000 (13:38 -0400)]
generic sys_execve()
Selected by __ARCH_WANT_SYS_EXECVE in unistd.h. Requires
* working current_pt_regs()
* *NOT* doing a syscall-in-kernel kind of kernel_execve()
implementation. Using generic kernel_execve() is fine.
Al Viro [Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:20:09 +0000 (13:20 -0400)]
generic kernel_execve()
based mostly on arm and alpha versions. Architectures can define
__ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE and use it, provided that
* they have working current_pt_regs(), even for kernel threads.
* kernel_thread-spawned threads do have space for pt_regs
in the normal location. Normally that's as simple as switching to
generic kernel_thread() and making sure that kernel threads do *not*
go through return from syscall path; call the payload from equivalent
of ret_from_fork if we are in a kernel thread (or just have separate
ret_from_kernel_thread and make copy_thread() use it instead of
ret_from_fork in kernel thread case).
* they have ret_from_kernel_execve(); it is called after
successful do_execve() done by kernel_execve() and gets normal
pt_regs location passed to it as argument. It's essentially
a longjmp() analog - it should set sp, etc. to the situation
expected at the return for syscall and go there. Eventually
the need for that sucker will disappear, but that'll take some
surgery on kernel_thread() payloads.
Al Viro [Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:12:36 +0000 (13:12 -0400)]
new helper: current_pt_regs()
Normally (and that's the default) it's just task_pt_regs(current).
However, if an architecture can optimize that, it can do so by
making a macro of its own available from asm/ptrace.h. More
importantly, some architectures have task_pt_regs() working only
for traced tasks blocked on signal delivery. current_pt_regs()
needs to work for *all* processes, so before those architectures
start using stuff relying on current_pt_regs() they'll need a
properly working variant.
Al Viro [Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:55:31 +0000 (19:55 -0400)]
preparation for generic kernel_thread()
Let architectures select GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD and have their copy_thread()
treat NULL regs as "it came from kernel_thread(), sp argument contains
the function new thread will be calling and stack_size - the argument for
that function". Switching the architectures begins shortly...
Al Viro [Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:28:25 +0000 (09:28 -0400)]
um: kill thread->forking
we only use that to tell copy_thread() done by syscall from that
done by kernel_thread(). However, it's easier to do simply by
checking PF_KTHREAD in thread flags.
Merge sys_clone() guts for 32bit and 64bit, while we are at it...
Al Viro [Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:12:06 +0000 (22:12 +0400)]
x86: get rid of TIF_IRET hackery
TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME will work in precisely the same way; all that
is achieved by TIF_IRET is appearing that there's some work to be
done, so we end up on the iret exit path. Just use NOTIFY_RESUME.
And for execve() do that in 32bit start_thread(), not sys_execve()
itself.
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:
"A small collection of driver fixes/updates and a core fix for 3.6. It
contains:
- Bug fixes for mtip32xx, and support for new hardware (just addition
of IDs). They have been queued up for 3.7 for a few weeks as well.
- rate-limit a failing command error message in block core.
- A fix for an old cciss bug from Stephen.
- Prevent overflow of partition count from Alan."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
cciss: fix handling of protocol error
blk: add an upper sanity check on partition adding
mtip32xx: fix user_buffer check in exec_drive_command
mtip32xx: Remove dead code
mtip32xx: Change printk to pr_xxxx
mtip32xx: Proper reporting of write protect status on big-endian
mtip32xx: Increase timeout for standby command
mtip32xx: Handle NCQ commands during the security locked state
mtip32xx: Add support for new devices
block: rate-limit the error message from failing commands
Merge tag 'sh-for-linus' of git://github.com/pmundt/linux-sh
Pull SuperH fixes from Paul Mundt.
* tag 'sh-for-linus' of git://github.com/pmundt/linux-sh:
sh: Fix up TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME sans TIF_SIGPENDING handling.
sh: pfc: Release spinlock in sh_pfc_gpio_request_enable() error path
sh: intc: Fix up multi-evt irq association.
Merge tag 'md-3.6-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md
Pull md fixes from NeilBrown:
"3 fixes for md in 3.6.
One reverts a recent patch which turns out to not be such a good idea.
Other two fix minor bugs with the new (since 3.3) 'replacement' code
and have been tagged for -stable."
* tag 'md-3.6-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md: make sure metadata is updated when spares are activated or removed.
md/raid5: fix calculate of 'degraded' when a replacement becomes active.
Revert "md/raid5: For odirect-write performance, do not set STRIPE_PREREAD_ACTIVE."
Merge branch 'for-3.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Pull workqueue / powernow-k8 fix from Tejun Heo:
"This is the fix for the bug where cpufreq/powernow-k8 was tripping
BUG_ON() in try_to_wake_up_local() by migrating workqueue worker to a
different CPU.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47301
As discussed, the fix is now two parts - one to reimplement
work_on_cpu() so that it doesn't create a new kthread each time and
the actual fix which makes powernow-k8 use work_on_cpu() instead of
performing manual migration.
While pretty late in the merge cycle, both changes are on the safer
side. Jiri and I verified two existing users of work_on_cpu() and
Duncan confirmed that the powernow-k8 fix survived about 18 hours of
testing."
* 'for-3.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
cpufreq/powernow-k8: workqueue user shouldn't migrate the kworker to another CPU
workqueue: reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wq
cpufreq/powernow-k8: workqueue user shouldn't migrate the kworker to another CPU
powernowk8_target() runs off a per-cpu work item and if the
cpufreq_policy->cpu is different from the current one, it migrates the
kworker to the target CPU by manipulating current->cpus_allowed. The
function migrates the kworker back to the original CPU but this is
still broken. Workqueue concurrency management requires the kworkers
to stay on the same CPU and powernowk8_target() ends up triggerring
BUG_ON(rq != this_rq()) in try_to_wake_up_local() if it contends on
fidvid_mutex and sleeps.
It is unclear why this bug is being reported now. Duncan says it
appeared to be a regression of 3.6-rc1 and couldn't reproduce it on
3.5. Bisection seemed to point to 63d95a91 "workqueue: use @pool
instead of @gcwq or @cpu where applicable" which is an non-functional
change. Given that the reproduce case sometimes took upto days to
trigger, it's easy to be misled while bisecting. Maybe something made
contention on fidvid_mutex more likely? I don't know.
This patch fixes the bug by using work_on_cpu() instead if @pol->cpu
isn't the same as the current one. The code assumes that
cpufreq_policy->cpu is kept online by the caller, which Rafael tells
me is the case.
stable: ed48ece27c ("workqueue: reimplement work_on_cpu() using
system_wq") should be applied before this; otherwise, the
behavior could be horrible.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Tested-by: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47301
workqueue: reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wq
The existing work_on_cpu() implementation is hugely inefficient. It
creates a new kthread, execute that single function and then let the
kthread die on each invocation.
Now that system_wq can handle concurrent executions, there's no
advantage of doing this. Reimplement work_on_cpu() using system_wq
which makes it simpler and way more efficient.
stable: While this isn't a fix in itself, it's needed to fix a
workqueue related bug in cpufreq/powernow-k8. AFAICS, this
shouldn't break other existing users.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
md: make sure metadata is updated when spares are activated or removed.
It isn't always necessary to update the metadata when spares are
removed as the presence-or-not of a spare isn't really important to
the integrity of an array.
Also activating a spare doesn't always require updating the metadata
as the update on 'recovery-completed' is usually sufficient.
However the introduction of 'replacement' devices have made these
transitions sometimes more important. For example the 'Replacement'
flag isn't cleared until the original device is removed, so we need
to ensure a metadata update after that 'spare' is removed.
So set MD_CHANGE_DEVS whenever a spare is activated or removed, to
complement the current situation where it is set when a spare is added
or a device is failed (or a number of other less common situations).
This is suitable for -stable as out-of-data metadata could lead
to data corruption.
This is only relevant for 3.3 and later 9when 'replacement' as
introduced.
md/raid5: fix calculate of 'degraded' when a replacement becomes active.
When a replacement device becomes active, we mark the device that it
replaces as 'faulty' so that it can subsequently get removed.
However 'calc_degraded' only pays attention to the primary device, not
the replacement, so the array appears to become degraded, which is
wrong.
So teach 'calc_degraded' to consider any replacement if a primary
device is faulty.
This is suitable for -stable as an incorrect 'degraded' value can
confuse md and could lead to data corruption.
This is only relevant for 3.3 and later.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Robin Hill <robin@robinhill.me.uk> Reported-by: John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
While this patch seemed like a good idea and did help some workloads,
it hurts other workloads.
Large sequential O_DIRECT writes were faster,
Small random O_DIRECT writes were slower.
Other changes (batching RAID5 writes) have improved the sequential
writes using a different mechanism, so the net result of this patch
is definitely negative. So revert it.
Reported-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Tested-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
vfs: dcache: use DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED instead of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED in d_kill()
IBM reported a soft lockup after applying the fix for the rename_lock
deadlock. Commit c83ce989cb5f ("VFS: Fix the nfs sillyrename regression
in kernel 2.6.38") was found to be the culprit.
The nfs sillyrename fix used DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to indicate that the
dentry was killed. This flag can be set on non-killed dentries too,
which results in infinite retries when trying to traverse the dentry
tree.
This patch introduces a separate flag: DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED, which is
only set in d_kill() and makes try_to_ascend() test only this flag.
IBM reported successful test results with this patch.
If a command completes with a status of CMD_PROTOCOL_ERR, this
information should be conveyed to the SCSI mid layer, not dropped
on the floor. Unlike a similar bug in the hpsa driver, this bug
only affects tape drives and CD and DVD ROM drives in the cciss
driver, and to induce it, you have to disconnect (or damage) a
cable, so it is not a very likely scenario (which would explain
why the bug has gone undetected for the last 10 years.)
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Al Viro [Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:04:37 +0000 (17:04 +0900)]
sh: Fix up TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME sans TIF_SIGPENDING handling.
As Al notes, we missed a TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME check which caused any
handlers without TIF_SIGPENDING also set to skip the notification:
Looks like while it is in the relevant masks *and* checked in
do_notify_resume() both on 32bit and 64bit variants since commit ab99c733ae73cce31f2a2434f7099564e5a73d95 ("sh: Make syscall tracer
use tracehook notifiers, add TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME.") they are
actually *not* reached without simulataneous SIGPENDING, since
the actual glue in the callers had not been updated back then and
still checks for _TIF_SIGPENDING alone when deciding whether to
hit do_notify_resume() or not.
Reported-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
sh: pfc: Release spinlock in sh_pfc_gpio_request_enable() error path
The sh_pfc_gpio_request_enable() function acquires a spinlock but fails
to release it before returning if the requested mux type is not
supported. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Merge branch 'for-3.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Pull another workqueue fix from Tejun Heo:
"Unfortunately, yet another late fix. This too is discovered and fixed
by Lai. This bug was introduced during this merge window by commit 25511a477657 ("workqueue: reimplement CPU online rebinding to handle
idle workers") which started using WORKER_REBIND flag for idle rebind
too.
The bug is relatively easy to trigger if the CPU rapidly goes through
off, on and then off (and stay off). The fix is on the safer side.
This hasn't been on linux-next yet but I'm pushing early so that it
can get more exposure before v3.6 release."
* 'for-3.6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: always clear WORKER_REBIND in busy_worker_rebind_fn()
Lai Jiangshan [Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:42:31 +0000 (15:42 -0700)]
workqueue: always clear WORKER_REBIND in busy_worker_rebind_fn()
busy_worker_rebind_fn() didn't clear WORKER_REBIND if rebinding failed
(CPU is down again). This used to be okay because the flag wasn't
used for anything else.
However, after 25511a477 "workqueue: reimplement CPU online rebinding
to handle idle workers", WORKER_REBIND is also used to command idle
workers to rebind. If not cleared, the worker may confuse the next
CPU_UP cycle by having REBIND spuriously set or oops / get stuck by
prematurely calling idle_worker_rebind().
There was no reason to keep WORKER_REBIND on failure in the first
place - WORKER_UNBOUND is guaranteed to be set in such cases
preventing incorrectly activating concurrency management. Always
clear WORKER_REBIND.
tj: Updated comment and description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Merge fixes from Andrew Morton:
"13 patches. 12 are fixes and one is a little preparatory thing for
Andi."
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (13 commits)
memory hotplug: fix section info double registration bug
mm/page_alloc: fix the page address of higher page's buddy calculation
drivers/rtc/rtc-twl.c: ensure all interrupts are disabled during probe
compiler.h: add __visible
pid-namespace: limit value of ns_last_pid to (0, max_pid)
include/net/sock.h: squelch compiler warning in sk_rmem_schedule()
slub: consider pfmemalloc_match() in get_partial_node()
slab: fix starting index for finding another object
slab: do ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for all pages of slab
nbd: clear waiting_queue on shutdown
MAINTAINERS: fix TXT maintainer list and source repo path
mm/ia64: fix a memory block size bug
memory hotplug: reset pgdat->kswapd to NULL if creating kernel thread fails
memory hotplug: fix section info double registration bug
There may be a bug when registering section info. For example, on my
Itanium platform, the pfn range of node0 includes the other nodes, so
other nodes' section info will be double registered, and memmap's page
count will equal to 3.
Li Haifeng [Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:09:21 +0000 (14:09 -0700)]
mm/page_alloc: fix the page address of higher page's buddy calculation
The heuristic method for buddy has been introduced since commit 43506fad21ca ("mm/page_alloc.c: simplify calculation of combined index
of adjacent buddy lists"). But the page address of higher page's buddy
was wrongly calculated, which will lead page_is_buddy to fail for ever.
IOW, the heuristic method would be disabled with the wrong page address
of higher page's buddy.
Calculating the page address of higher page's buddy should be based
higher_page with the offset between index of higher page and index of
higher page's buddy.
Signed-off-by: Haifeng Li <omycle@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KyongHo Cho <pullip.cho@samsung.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.38+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kevin Hilman [Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:09:17 +0000 (14:09 -0700)]
drivers/rtc/rtc-twl.c: ensure all interrupts are disabled during probe
On some platforms, bootloaders are known to do some interesting RTC
programming. Without going into the obscurities as to why this may be
the case, suffice it to say the the driver should not make any
assumptions about the state of the RTC when the driver loads. In
particular, the driver probe should be sure that all interrupts are
disabled until otherwise programmed.
This was discovered when finding bursty I2C traffic every second on
Overo platforms. This I2C overhead was keeping the SoC from hitting
deep power states. The cause was found to be the RTC firing every
second on the I2C-connected TWL PMIC.
Special thanks to Felipe Balbi for suggesting to look for a rogue driver
as the source of the I2C traffic rather than the I2C driver itself.
Special thanks to Steve Sakoman for helping track down the source of the
continuous RTC interrups on the Overo boards.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Tested-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Tested-by: Shubhrajyoti Datta <omaplinuxkernel@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
gcc 4.6+ has support for a externally_visible attribute that prevents the
optimizer from optimizing unused symbols away. Add a __visible macro to
use it with that compiler version or later.
This is used (at least) by the "Link Time Optimization" patchset.
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