linux-stable-rt/arch/um
Jeff Dike 536788fe2d uml: runtime host VMSPLIT detection
Calculate TASK_SIZE at run-time by figuring out the host's VMSPLIT - this is
needed on i386 if UML is to run on hosts with varying VMSPLITs without
recompilation.

TASK_SIZE is now defined in terms of a variable, task_size.  This gets rid of
an include of pgtable.h from processor.h, which can cause include loops.

On i386, task_size is calculated early in boot by probing the address space in
a binary search to figure out where the boundary between usable and non-usable
memory is.  This tries to make sure that a page that is considered to be in
userspace is, or can be made, read-write.  I'm concerned about a system-global
VDSO page in kernel memory being hit and considered to be a userspace page.

On x86_64, task_size is just the old value of CONFIG_TOP_ADDR.

A bunch of config variable are gone now.  CONFIG_TOP_ADDR is directly replaced
by TASK_SIZE.  NEST_LEVEL is gone since the relocation of the stubs makes it
irrelevant.  All the HOST_VMSPLIT stuff is gone.  All references to these in
arch/um/Makefile are also gone.

I noticed and fixed a missing extern in os.h when adding os_get_task_size.

Note: This has been revised to fix the 32-bit UML on 64-bit host bug that
Miklos ran into.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:42 -08:00
..
drivers uml: make mconsole_stack namespace-aware 2008-02-05 09:44:32 -08:00
include uml: runtime host VMSPLIT detection 2008-02-08 09:22:42 -08:00
kernel uml: runtime host VMSPLIT detection 2008-02-08 09:22:42 -08:00
os-Linux uml: runtime host VMSPLIT detection 2008-02-08 09:22:42 -08:00
scripts
sys-i386 uml: redo the calculation of NR_syscalls 2008-02-05 09:44:32 -08:00
sys-ia64
sys-ppc uml: remove TOPDIR 2008-02-05 09:44:31 -08:00
sys-x86_64 uml: redo the calculation of NR_syscalls 2008-02-05 09:44:32 -08:00
Kconfig uml: runtime host VMSPLIT detection 2008-02-08 09:22:42 -08:00
Kconfig.char uml: fix URLs in Kconfig and help strings 2008-02-05 09:44:25 -08:00
Kconfig.debug uml: GPROF needs to depend on FRAME_POINTER 2008-02-05 09:44:25 -08:00
Kconfig.i386 uml: runtime host VMSPLIT detection 2008-02-08 09:22:42 -08:00
Kconfig.net uml: fix URLs in Kconfig and help strings 2008-02-05 09:44:25 -08:00
Kconfig.x86_64 uml: runtime host VMSPLIT detection 2008-02-08 09:22:42 -08:00
Makefile uml: runtime host VMSPLIT detection 2008-02-08 09:22:42 -08:00
Makefile-i386
Makefile-ia64
Makefile-os-Linux
Makefile-ppc
Makefile-skas
Makefile-x86_64
defconfig uml: runtime host VMSPLIT detection 2008-02-08 09:22:42 -08:00