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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/urgent
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Merge reason: Switch from pre-merge topical split to the post-merge urgent track
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Callers of a stacktrace might pass bad frame pointers. Those
are usually checked for safety in stack walking helpers before
any dereferencing, but this is not the case when we need to go
through one more frame pointer that backlinks the irq stack to
the previous one, as we don't have any reliable address boudaries
to compare this frame pointer against.
This raises crashes when we record callchains for ftrace events
with perf because we don't use the right helpers to capture
registers there. We get wrong frame pointers as we call
task_pt_regs() even on kernel threads, which is a wrong thing
as it gives us the initial state of any kernel threads freshly
created. This is even not what we want for user tasks. What we want
is a hot snapshot of registers when the ftrace event triggers, not
the state before a task entered the kernel.
This requires more thoughts to do it correctly though.
So first put a guardian to ensure the given frame pointer
can be dereferenced to avoid crashes. We'll think about how to fix
the callers in a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: 2.6.33.x <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Patch 1da53e0230 ("perf_events, x86: Improve x86 event scheduling")
lost us one of the fixed purpose counters and then ed8777fc13
("perf_events, x86: Fix event constraint masks") broke it even
further.
Widen the fixed event mask to event+umask and specify the full config
for each of the 3 fixed purpose counters. Then let the init code fill
out the placement for the GP regs based on the cpuid info.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The ANY flag can show SMT data of another task (like 'top'),
so we want to disable it when system-wide profiling is
disabled.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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For consistency reasons this patch renames
ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL0_ENABLE to ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE.
The following is performed:
$ sed -i -e s/ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL0_ENABLE/ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE/g \
arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c \
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p6.c \
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c \
arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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This patch moves code from oprofile to perf_event.h to make it also
available for usage by perf.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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We support event unthrottling in breakpoint events. It means
that if we have more than sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate/HZ,
perf will throttle, ignoring subsequent events until the next
tick.
So if ptrace exceeds this max rate, it will omit events, which
breaks the ptrace determinism that is supposed to report every
triggered breakpoints. This is likely to happen if we set
sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate to 1.
This patch removes support for unthrottling in breakpoint
events to break throttling and restore ptrace determinism.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: 2.6.33.x <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Remove the name field from the arch_hw_breakpoint. We never deal
with target symbols in the arch level, neither do we need to ever
store it. It's a legacy for the previous version of the x86
breakpoint backend.
Let's remove it.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge reason:
__percpu annotations need the corresponding sparse address
space definition upstream.
Conflicts:
tools/perf/util/probe-event.c (trivial)
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Avoid kernels from exploding on AMD machines when they have any
lock debugging bits enabled.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Split amd,p6,intel into separate files so that we can easily deal with
CONFIG_CPU_SUP_* things, needed to make things build now that perf_event.c
relies on symbols from amd.c
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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During switching virtual counters there is access to perfctr msrs. If
the counter is not available this fails due to an invalid
address. This patch fixes this.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Multiple virtual counters share one physical counter. The reservation
of virtual counters fails due to duplicate allocation of the same
counter. The counters are already reserved. Thus, virtual counter
reservation may removed at all. This also makes the code easier.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Currently, oprofile fails silently on platforms where a non-OS entity
such as the system firmware "enables" and uses a performance
counter. There is a warning in the code for this case.
The warning indicates an already running counter. If oprofile doesn't
collect data, then try using a different performance counter on your
platform to monitor the desired event. Delete the counter from the
desired event by editing the
/usr/share/oprofile/<cpu_type>/<cpu>/events
file. If the event cannot be monitored by any other counter, contact
your hardware or BIOS vendor.
Cc: Shashi Belur <shashi-kiran.belur@hp.com>
Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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This patch generates a warning if a counter is already active.
Implemented for AMD and P6 models. P4 is not supported.
Cc: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Cc: Shashi Belur <shashi-kiran.belur@hp.com>
Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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IBS selects an op (execution operation) for sampling by counting
either cycles or dispatched ops. Better statistical samples can be
produced by adding a software generated random offset to the periodic
op counter value with each sample.
This patch adds software randomization to the IBS periodic op
counter. The lower 12 bits of the 20 bit counter are
randomized. IbsOpCurCnt is initialized with a 12 bit random value.
There is a work around if the hw can not write to IbsOpCurCnt. Then
the lower 8 bits of the 16 bit IbsOpMaxCnt [15:0] value are randomized
in the range of -128 to +127 by adding/subtracting an offset to the
maximum count (IbsOpMaxCnt).
The linear feedback shift register (LFSR) algorithm is used for
pseudo-random number generation to have low impact to the memory
system.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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This patch implements a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) for
pseudo-random number generation for IBS.
For IBS measurements it would be good to minimize memory traffic in
the interrupt handler since every access pollutes the data
caches. Computing a maximal period LFSR just needs shifts and ORs.
The LFSR method is good enough to randomize the ops at low
overhead. 16 pseudo-random bits are enough for the implementation and
it doesn't matter that the pattern repeats with a fairly short
cycle. It only needs to break up (hard) periodic sampling behavior.
The logic was designed by Paul Drongowski.
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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This patch adds IBS feature detection using cpuid flags. An IBS
capability mask is introduced to test for certain IBS features. The
bit mask is the same as for IBS cpuid feature flags (Fn8000_001B_EAX),
but bit 0 is used to indicate the existence of IBS.
The patch also changes the handling of the IbsOpCntCtl bit (periodic
op counter count control). The oprofilefs file for this feature
(ibs_op/dispatched_ops) will be only exposed if the feature is
available, also the default for the bit is set to count clock cycles.
In general, the userland can detect the availability of a feature by
checking for the corresponding file in oprofilefs. If it exists, the
feature also exists. This may lead to a dynamic file layout depending
on the cpu type with that the userland has to deal with. Current
opcontrol is compatible.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Standard AMD systems have the same number of nodes as there are
northbridge devices. However, there may kernel configurations
(especially for 32 bit) or system setups exist, where the node number
is different or it can not be detected properly. Thus the check is not
reliable and may fail though IBS setup was fine. For this reason it is
better to remove the check.
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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OProfile support for IBS is now for several versions in the
kernel. The feature is stable now and the code can be activated
permanently.
As a side effect IBS now works also on nosmp configs.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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OProfile is already used for a long time and no longer experimental.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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The commit
1155de4 ring-buffer: Make it generally available
already made ring-buffer available without the TRACING option
enabled. This patch removes the TRACING dependency from oprofile.
Fixes also oprofile configuration on ia64.
The patch also applies to the 2.6.32-stable kernel.
Reported-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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We re-program the event control register every time we reset the count,
this appears to be superflous, hence remove it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Since the cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() is always
smp_processor_id(), simplify the code a little by removing this argument
and using the current cpu where needed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265890918.5396.3.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch adds correct AMD NorthBridge event scheduling.
NB events are events measuring L3 cache, Hypertransport traffic. They are
identified by an event code >= 0xe0. They measure events on the
Northbride which is shared by all cores on a package. NB events are
counted on a shared set of counters. When a NB event is programmed in a
counter, the data actually comes from a shared counter. Thus, access to
those counters needs to be synchronized.
We implement the synchronization such that no two cores can be measuring
NB events using the same counters. Thus, we maintain a per-NB allocation
table. The available slot is propagated using the event_constraint
structure.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4b703957.0702d00a.6bf2.7b7d@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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In certain situations, the kernel may need to stop and start the same
event rapidly. The current PMU callbacks do not distinguish between stop
and release (i.e., stop + free the resource). Thus, a counter may be
released, then it will be immediately re-acquired. Event scheduling will
again take place with no guarantee to assign the same counter. On some
processors, this may event yield to failure to assign the event back due
to competion between cores.
This patch is adding a new pair of callback to stop and restart a counter
without actually release the underlying counter resource. On stop, the
counter is stopped, its values saved and that's it. On start, the value
is reloaded and counter is restarted (on x86, actual restart is delayed
until perf_enable()).
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[ added fallback to ->enable/->disable for all other PMUs
fixed x86_pmu_start() to call x86_pmu.enable()
merged __x86_pmu_disable into x86_pmu_stop() ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4b703875.0a04d00a.7896.ffffb824@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6
* 'urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6:
parisc: Set PCI CLS early in boot.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] Fix broken sn2 build
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Set the PCI CLS early in the boot process to prevent
device failures. In pcibios_set_master use the new
pci_cache_line_size instead of a hard-coded value.
Signed-off-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@codesourcery.com>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
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Trailing semicolon causes compilation involving out_le32() to fail.
Signed-off-by: Steven J. Magnani <steve@digidescorp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
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I create wrong asm code but none test shows that this part of code is wrong.
I am not convinces that were good idea to create asm optimized macros
for caches. The reason is that there is not optimization with previous code
that's why make sense to add old code and do some benchmarking which
functions are faster.
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
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Revert the change made to arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c by commit
204fba4aa303ea4a7bb726a539bf4a5b9e3203d0 as it breaks the build.
Fixing the build the b94b08081fcecf83fa690d6c5664f6316fe72208 way
breaks xpc because genksyms then fails to generate an CRC for
per_cpu____sn_cnodeid_to_nasid because of limitations in the
generic genksyms code.
Signed-off-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
MIPS: BCM47xx: Fix 128MB RAM support
MIPS: Highmem: Fix build error
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland
* 'parisc/tracehook' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-roland:
Revert "parisc: HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK"
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Ignoring the last page when ddr size is 128M. Cached accesses to last page
is causing the processor to prefetch using address above 128M stepping out
of the DDR address space.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/981/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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arch/mips/mm/highmem.c: In function 'kmap_init':
arch/mips/mm/highmem.c:130: error: 'init_mm' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/mips/mm/highmem.c:130: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/mips/mm/highmem.c:130: error: for each function it appears in.)
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/980/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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This reverts commit 81bf550d9cdfe0325eb1504b06c9f6511b442c1a.
HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK requires defining the user_regset interfaces,
including task_user_regset_view(). parisc doesn't do that yet,
so don't lie about it.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf probe: Init struct probe_point and set counter correctly
hw-breakpoint: Keep track of dr7 local enable bits
hw-breakpoints: Accept breakpoints on NULL address
perf_events: Fix FORK events
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc32: Fix struct stat uid/gid types.
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Commit 085219f79cad89291699bd2bfb21c9fdabafe65f
("sparc32: use proper types in struct stat")
Accidently changed the struct stat uid/gid members
to uid_t and gid_t, but those get set to
__kernel_uid32_t and __kernel_gid32_t respectively.
Those are of type 'int' but the structure is meant
to have 'short'. So use uid16_t and gid16_t to
correct this.
Reported-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6
* 'omap-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6:
omap: Remove DEBUG_FS dependency for mux name checking
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
ARM: allow alignment fault mode to be configured at kernel boot
ARM: Update mach-types
ARM: 5951/1: ARM: fix documentation of the PrimeCell bus
ARM: 5950/1: ARM: Fix build error for arm1026ej-s processor
MAINTAINERS: fix my e-mail and status for Gemini and FA526
Gemini: wrong registers used to set reg_level in gpio_set_irq_type()
ARM: 5944/1: scsi: fix timer setup in fas216.c
ARM: 5938/1: ARM: L2: export outer_cache_fns
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Some glibc versions intentionally create lots of alignment faults in
their gconv code, which if not fixed up, results in segfaults during
boot. This can prevent systems booting properly.
There is no clear hard-configurable default for this; the desired
default depends on the nature of the userspace which is going to be
booted.
So, provide a way for the alignment fault handler to be configured via
the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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This patch fix the below build error for arm1026ej-s processor (IntegratorCP/arm1026ej-s board).
CC init/main.o
In file included from include/linux/highmem.h:8,
from include/linux/pagemap.h:10,
from include/linux/mempolicy.h:62,
from init/main.c:52:
arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h:134:2: error: #error Unknown cache maintainence model
make[1]: *** [init/main.o] Erreur 1
make: *** [init] Erreur 2
Signed-off-by: Abdoulaye Walsimou Gaye <walsimou@walsimou.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc64: Fix sun4u execute bit check in TSB I-TLB load.
sparc: Fix incorrect comparison in of_bus_ambapp_match()
sparc64: Sync of_create_pci_dev() with drivers/pci/probe.c changes.
sparc64: Tighten checks in kstack_valid().
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