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authorVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>2013-01-18 15:12:24 +0530
committerVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>2013-02-15 23:16:05 +0530
commitbf14e3b979a01cd7298d631736f965fe83c6e2bc (patch)
tree8440a0641556332763615edc881f81d1da6f2d37
parentARC: kprobes support (diff)
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sysctl: Enable PARISC "unaligned-trap" to be used cross-arch
PARISC defines /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap to runtime toggle unaligned access emulation. The exact mechanics of enablig/disabling are still arch specific, we can make the sysctl usable by other arches. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/parisc/Kconfig1
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig8
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c5
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/parisc/Kconfig b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
index b77feffbadea..8c7609539717 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/parisc/Kconfig
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ config PARISC
select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER
+ select SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
select CLONE_BACKWARDS
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index be8b7f55312d..01180da49add 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1232,6 +1232,14 @@ config SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
help
Enable support for /proc/sys/debug/exception-trace.
+config SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
+ bool
+ help
+ Enable support for /proc/sys/kernel/unaligned-trap
+ Allows arches to define/use @unaligned_enabled to runtime toggle
+ the unaligned access emulation.
+ see arch/parisc/kernel/unaligned.c for reference
+
config KALLSYMS
bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EXPERT
default y
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index c88878db491e..878b4c41cfb7 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -157,6 +157,9 @@ extern int sysctl_tsb_ratio;
#ifdef __hppa__
extern int pwrsw_enabled;
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
extern int unaligned_enabled;
#endif
@@ -545,6 +548,8 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
},
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL_ARCH_UNALIGN_ALLOW
{
.procname = "unaligned-trap",
.data = &unaligned_enabled,