)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "1c7037db50ebecf3d5cfbf7082daa5d97d900fef", "tree": "1843c417160b79c3f79a54d546ddcf5ccdb1b44b", "parents": [ "22124c9999f00340b062fff740db30187bf18454" ], "author": { "name": "Benjamin Herrenschmidt", "email": "benh@kernel.crashing.org", "time": "Thu Oct 18 23:39:14 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Fri Oct 19 11:53:34 2007 -0700" }, "message": "remove unused flush_tlb_pgtables\n\nNobody uses flush_tlb_pgtables anymore, this patch removes all remaining\ntraces of it from all archs.\n\nSigned-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt \u003cbenh@kernel.crashing.org\u003e\nCc: \u003clinux-arch@vger.kernel.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "954ffcb35f5aca428661d29b96c4eee82b3c19cd", "tree": "2dd8aaf26a8ae81b461b6d5d824ae8744690e483", "parents": [ "97ee052461446526e1de7236497e6f1b1ffedf8c" ], "author": { "name": "KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki", "email": "kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com", "time": "Tue Oct 16 01:25:44 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Oct 16 09:42:59 2007 -0700" }, "message": "flush icache before set_pte() on ia64: flush icache at set_pte\n\nCurrent ia64 kernel flushes icache by lazy_mmu_prot_update() *after*\nset_pte(). This is too late. This patch removes lazy_mmu_prot_update and\nadd modfied set_pte() for flushing if necessary.\n\nThis patch flush icache of a page when\n\tnew pte has exec bit.\n\t\u0026\u0026 new pte has present bit\n\t\u0026\u0026 new pte is user\u0027s page.\n\t\u0026\u0026 (old *ptep is not present\n || new pte\u0027s pfn is not same to old *ptep\u0027s ptn)\n\t\u0026\u0026 new pte\u0027s page has no Pg_arch_1 bit.\n\t Pg_arch_1 is set when a page is cache consistent.\n\nI think this condition checks are much easier to understand than considering\n\"Where sync_icache_dcache() should be inserted ?\".\n\npte_user() for ia64 was removed by http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/12/67 as\nclean-up. So, I added it again.\n\nSigned-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki \u003ckamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com\u003e\nCc: \"Luck, Tony\" \u003ctony.luck@intel.com\u003e\nCc: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nCc: Hugh Dickins \u003chugh@veritas.com\u003e\nCc: Nick Piggin \u003cnickpiggin@yahoo.com.au\u003e\nAcked-by: David S. Miller \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c19c03fc749147f565e807fa65f1729066800571", "tree": "d5ba2eb6d43b5001c93c42523fc5b2431ef61664", "parents": [ "3c8c90ab8810a8ebb38a5f1dde2595b750d5adff" ], "author": { "name": "Benjamin Herrenschmidt", "email": "benh@kernel.crashing.org", "time": "Mon Jun 04 15:15:35 2007 +1000" }, "committer": { "name": "Paul Mackerras", "email": "paulus@samba.org", "time": "Thu Jun 14 22:29:56 2007 +1000" }, "message": "[POWERPC] unmap_vm_area becomes unmap_kernel_range for the public\n\nThis makes unmap_vm_area static and a wrapper around a new\nexported unmap_kernel_range that takes an explicit range instead\nof a vm_area struct.\n\nThis makes it more versatile for code that wants to play with kernel\npage tables outside of the standard vmalloc area.\n\n(One example is some rework of the PowerPC PCI IO space mapping\ncode that depends on that patch and removes some code duplication\nand horrible abuse of forged struct vm_struct).\n\nSigned-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt \u003cbenh@kernel.crashing.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Paul Mackerras \u003cpaulus@samba.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "a6f36be32622730710b2fadacb6e2649defa4371", "tree": "09d0f3ebe839b76373ee5ed4674fe305ad9ac256", "parents": [ "e47c222b22cd53c317a5573e1dc5f9e0cbd46380" ], "author": { "name": "Russell King", "email": "rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk", "time": "Sat Dec 30 22:24:19 2006 +0000" }, "committer": { "name": "Russell King", "email": "rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk", "time": "Mon Jan 08 19:49:54 2007 +0000" }, "message": "[ARM] pass vma for flush_anon_page()\n\nSince get_user_pages() may be used with processes other than the\ncurrent process and calls flush_anon_page(), flush_anon_page() has to\ncope in some way with non-current processes.\n\nIt may not be appropriate, or even desirable to flush a region of\nvirtual memory cache in the current process when that is different to\nthe process that we want the flush to occur for.\n\nTherefore, pass the vma into flush_anon_page() so that the architecture\ncan work out whether the \u0027vmaddr\u0027 is for the current process or not.\n\nSigned-off-by: Russell King \u003crmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ec8c0446b6e2b67b5c8813eb517f4bf00efa99a9", "tree": "e7c12d7c486c958a5e38888b41cfcd6a558f1aff", "parents": [ "bcd022801ee514e28c32837f0b3ce18c775f1a7b" ], "author": { "name": "Ralf Baechle", "email": "ralf@linux-mips.org", "time": "Tue Dec 12 17:14:57 2006 +0000" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Dec 13 09:27:08 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork\n\nVirtually index, physically tagged cache architectures can get away\nwithout cache flushing when forking. This patch adds a new cache\nflushing function flush_cache_dup_mm(struct mm_struct *) which for the\nmoment I\u0027ve implemented to do the same thing on all architectures\nexcept on MIPS where it\u0027s a no-op.\n\nSigned-off-by: Ralf Baechle \u003cralf@linux-mips.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "5a3a5a98b6422d05c39eaa32c8b3f83840c7b768", "tree": "e96a8f5543c94c57eb2b761fa94df9f7a9412e52", "parents": [ "03beb07664d768db97bf454ae5c9581cd4737bb4" ], "author": { "name": "James Bottomley", "email": "James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com", "time": "Sun Mar 26 01:36:59 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Mar 26 08:56:53 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Add flush_kernel_dcache_page() API\n\nWe have a problem in a lot of emulated storage in that it takes a page from\nget_user_pages() and does something like\n\nkmap_atomic(page)\nmodify page\nkunmap_atomic(page)\n\nHowever, nothing has flushed the kernel cache view of the page before the\nkunmap. We need a lightweight API to do this, so this new API would\nspecifically be for flushing the kernel cache view of a user page which the\nkernel has modified. The driver would need to add\nflush_kernel_dcache_page(page) before the final kunmap.\n\nSigned-off-by: James Bottomley \u003cJames.Bottomley@SteelEye.com\u003e\nCc: Russell King \u003crmk@arm.linux.org.uk\u003e\nCc: \"David S. Miller\" \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "03beb07664d768db97bf454ae5c9581cd4737bb4", "tree": "b906c4db3a70627a58363193f3f843e7e2132ca1", "parents": [ "64a07bd82ed526d813b64b0957543eef55bdf9c0" ], "author": { "name": "James Bottomley", "email": "James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com", "time": "Sun Mar 26 01:36:57 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Mar 26 08:56:53 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] Add API for flushing Anon pages\n\nCurrently, get_user_pages() returns fully coherent pages to the kernel for\nanything other than anonymous pages. This is a problem for things like\nfuse and the SCSI generic ioctl SG_IO which can potentially wish to do DMA\nto anonymous pages passed in by users.\n\nThe fix is to add a new memory management API: flush_anon_page() which\nis used in get_user_pages() to make anonymous pages coherent.\n\nSigned-off-by: James Bottomley \u003cJames.Bottomley@SteelEye.com\u003e\nCc: Russell King \u003crmk@arm.linux.org.uk\u003e\nCc: \"David S. Miller\" \u003cdavem@davemloft.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "575c96871832e91983248aebb02fc072e5fd17c9", "tree": "2de2ce229506f1e0e866ef00c9cf7e43489e295b", "parents": [ "a8e82ef97a1d1227575698935ec86ae4d02c372c" ], "author": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Sun Jan 15 02:00:17 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@r063144.stusta.swh.mhn.de", "time": "Sun Jan 15 02:00:17 2006 +0100" }, "message": "spelling: s/appropiate/appropriate/\n\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "663b97f7efd001b0c56bd5fce059c5272725b86f", "tree": "c80088db3514bf7f1749243e81fc3abaf7252ebd", "parents": [ "705e87c0c3c38424f7f30556c85bc20e808d2f59" ], "author": { "name": "Hugh Dickins", "email": "hugh@veritas.com", "time": "Sat Oct 29 18:16:28 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Oct 29 21:40:40 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] mm: flush_tlb_range outside ptlock\n\nThere was one small but very significant change in the previous patch:\nmprotect\u0027s flush_tlb_range fell outside the page_table_lock: as it is in 2.4,\nbut that doesn\u0027t prove it safe in 2.6.\n\nOn some architectures flush_tlb_range comes to the same as flush_tlb_mm, which\nhas always been called from outside page_table_lock in dup_mmap, and is so\nproved safe. Others required a deeper audit: I could find no reliance on\npage_table_lock in any; but in ia64 and parisc found some code which looks a\nbit as if it might want preemption disabled. That won\u0027t do any actual harm,\nso pending a decision from the maintainers, disable preemption there.\n\nRemove comments on page_table_lock from flush_tlb_mm, flush_tlb_range and\nflush_tlb_page entries in cachetlb.txt: they were rather misleading (what\ngeneric code does is different from what usually happens), the rules are now\nchanging, and it\u0027s not yet clear where we\u0027ll end up (will the generic\ntlb_flush_mmu happen always under lock? never under lock? or sometimes under\nand sometimes not?).\n\nSigned-off-by: Hugh Dickins \u003chugh@veritas.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "tree": "0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d", "parents": [], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "message": "Linux-2.6.12-rc2\n\nInitial git repository build. I\u0027m not bothering with the full history,\neven though we have it. We can create a separate \"historical\" git\narchive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it\u0027s about\n3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early\ngit days unnecessarily complicated, when we don\u0027t have a lot of good\ninfrastructure for it.\n\nLet it rip!\n" } ] }