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2007-02-11Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC64]: Update defconfig. [SPARC64]: Add PCI MSI support on Niagara. [SPARC64] IRQ: Use irq_desc->chip_data instead of irq_desc->handler_data [SPARC64]: Add obppath sysfs attribute for SBUS and PCI devices. [PARTITION]: Add whole_disk attribute.
2007-02-11[PATCH] Common compat_sys_sysinfoKyle McMartin
I noticed that almost all architectures implemented exactly the same sys32_sysinfo... except parisc, where a bug was to be found in handling of the uptime. So let's remove a whole whack of code for fun and profit. Cribbed compat_sys_sysinfo from x86_64's implementation, since I figured it would be the best tested. This patch incorporates Arnd's suggestion of not using set_fs/get_fs, but instead extracting out the common code from sys_sysinfo. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] consolidate line discipline number definitionsTilman Schmidt
The line discipline numbers N_* are currently defined for each architecture individually, but (except for a seeming mistake) identically, in asm/termios.h. There is no obvious reason why these numbers should be architecture specific, nor any apparent relationship with the termios structure. The total number of these, NR_LDISCS, is defined in linux/tty.h anyway. So I propose the following patch which moves the definitions of the individual line disciplines to linux/tty.h too. Three of these numbers (N_MASC, N_PROFIBUS_FDL, and N_SMSBLOCK) are unused in the current kernel, but the patch still keeps the complete set in case there are plans to use them yet. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] disable init/initramfs.c: architecturesJean-Paul Saman
Update all arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S to not include space for initramfs when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRAMFS is not selected. This saves another 4 kbytes on most platfoms (some reserve PAGE_SIZE for initramfs). Signed-off-by: Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman@nxp.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] Set CONFIG_ZONE_DMA for arches with GENERIC_ISA_DMAChristoph Lameter
As Andi pointed out: CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA only disables the ISA DMA channel management. Other functionality may still expect GFP_DMA to provide memory below 16M. So we need to make sure that CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is set independent of CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA. Undo the modifications to mm/Kconfig where we made ZONE_DMA dependent on GENERIC_ISA_DMA and set theses explicitly in each arches Kconfig. Reviews must occur for each arch in order to determine if ZONE_DMA can be switched off. It can only be switched off if we know that all devices supported by a platform are capable of performing DMA transfers to all of memory (Some arches already support this: uml, avr32, sh sh64, parisc and IA64/Altix). In order to switch ZONE_DMA off conditionally, one would have to establish a scheme by which one can assure that no drivers are enabled that are only capable of doing I/O to a part of memory, or one needs to provide an alternate means of performing an allocation from a specific range of memory (like provided by alloc_pages_range()) and insure that all drivers use that call. In that case the arches alloc_dma_coherent() may need to be modified to call alloc_pages_range() instead of relying on GFP_DMA. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] Drop free_pages()Christoph Lameter
nr_free_pages is now a simple access to a global variable. Make it a macro instead of a function. The nr_free_pages now requires vmstat.h to be included. There is one occurrence in power management where we need to add the include. Directly refrer to global_page_state() there to clarify why the #include was added. [akpm@osdl.org: arm build fix] [akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-10[SPARC64]: Update defconfig.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10[SPARC64]: Add PCI MSI support on Niagara.David S. Miller
This is kind of hokey, we could use the hardware provided facilities much better. MSIs are assosciated with MSI Queues. MSI Queues generate interrupts when any MSI assosciated with it is signalled. This suggests a two-tiered IRQ dispatch scheme: MSI Queue interrupt --> queue interrupt handler MSI dispatch --> driver interrupt handler But we just get one-level under Linux currently. What I'd like to do is possibly stick the IRQ actions into a per-MSI-Queue data structure, and dispatch them form there, but the generic IRQ layer doesn't provide a way to do that right now. So, the current kludge is to "ACK" the interrupt by processing the MSI Queue data structures and ACK'ing them, then we run the actual handler like normal. We are wasting a lot of useful information, for example the MSI data and address are provided with ever MSI, as well as a system tick if available. If we could pass this into the IRQ handler it could help with certain things, in particular for PCI-Express error messages. The MSI entries on sparc64 also tell you exactly which bus/device/fn sent the MSI, which would be great for error handling when no registered IRQ handler can service the interrupt. We override the disable/enable IRQ chip methods in sun4v_msi, so we have to call {mask,unmask}_msi_irq() directly from there. This is another ugly wart. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10[SPARC64] IRQ: Use irq_desc->chip_data instead of irq_desc->handler_dataDavid S. Miller
Otherwise we can't use the generic MSI code. Furthermore, properly use the {get,set}_irq_foo() abstracted interfaces instead of direct accesses to irq_desc[]->foo. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10[SPARC64]: Add obppath sysfs attribute for SBUS and PCI devices.Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Signed-off-by: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-26[SPARC64]: Set g4/g5 properly in sun4v dtlb-prot handling.David S. Miller
Mirror the logic in the sun4u handler, we have to update both registers even when we branch out to window fault fixup handling. The way it works is that if we are in etrap processing a fault already, g4/g5 holds the original fault information. If we take a window spill fault while doing etrap, then we put the window spill fault info into g4/g5 and this is what the top-level fault handler ends up processing first. Then we retry the originally faulting instruction, and process the original fault at that time. This is all necessary because of how constrained the trap registers are in these code paths. These cases trigger very rarely, so even if there is some performance implication it's doesn't happen very often. In fact the rarity is why it took so long to trigger and find this particular bug. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-11[PATCH] Change cpu_up and co from __devinit to __cpuinitGautham R Shenoy
Compiling the kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG = y and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU = n with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE = y generates the following modpost warnings WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between '_cpu_up' (at offset 0xc0141b7d) and 'cpu_up' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between '_cpu_up' (at offset 0xc0141b9c) and 'cpu_up' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__cpu_up from .text between '_cpu_up' (at offset 0xc0141bd8) and 'cpu_up' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between '_cpu_up' (at offset 0xc0141c05) and 'cpu_up' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between '_cpu_up' (at offset 0xc0141c26) and 'cpu_up' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between '_cpu_up' (at offset 0xc0141c37) and 'cpu_up' This is because cpu_up, _cpu_up and __cpu_up (in some architectures) are defined as __devinit AND __cpu_up calls some __cpuinit functions. Since __cpuinit would map to __init with this kind of a configuration, we get a .text refering .init.data warning. This patch solves the problem by converting all of __cpu_up, _cpu_up and cpu_up from __devinit to __cpuinit. The approach is justified since the callers of cpu_up are either dependent on CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU or are of __init type. Thus when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y, all these cpu up functions would land up in .text section, and when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n, all these functions would land up in .init section. Tested on a i386 SMP machine running linux-2.6.20-rc3-mm1. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-31[SPARC64]: Handle ISA devices with no 'regs' property.David S. Miller
And this points out that the return value from isa_dev_get_resource() and the 'pregs' arg to isa_dev_get_irq() are totally unused. Based upon a patch from Richard Mortimer <richm@oldelvet.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-31[SPARC64]: Update defconfig.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-31[SPARC64]: Fix of_iounmap() region release.David S. Miller
We need to pass in the resource otherwise we cannot release the region properly. We must know whether it is an I/O or MEM resource. Spotted by Eric Brower. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-31[SPARC64]: Fix "mem=xxx" handling.David S. Miller
We were not being careful enough. When we trim the physical memory areas, we have to make sure we don't remove the kernel image or initial ramdisk image ranges. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-30[PATCH] make fn_keys work again on power/macbooksSoeren Sonnenburg
The apple fn keys don't work anymore with 2.6.20-rc1. The reason is that USB_HID_POWERBOOK appears in several files although USB_HIDINPUT_POWERBOOK is the thing to be used. The patch fixes this. Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-17[SPARC64]: Mirror x86_64's PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM definition.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-17[SPARC64]: Minor irq handling cleanups.David S. Miller
Use struct irq_chip instead of hw_interrupt_type. Delete hw_resend_irq(), totally unused. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-17[SPARC64]: Kill no-remapping-needed code in head.SDavid S. Miller
It branches around some necessary prom calls, which we would need to do even if we are mapped at the correct location already. So it doesn't work. The idea was that this sort of thing could be used for the eventual kexec implementation, but it is clear that this will need to be done differently. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-13[PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() callsRobert P. J. Day
Run this: #!/bin/sh for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do echo "De-casting $f..." perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f done And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers to non-pointers. And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work. Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[SPARC64]: Fix several kprobes bugs.David S. Miller
- relbranch_fixup(), for non-branches, would end up setting regs->tnpc incorrectly, in fact it would set it equal to regs->tpc which would cause that instruction to execute twice Also, if this is not a PC-relative branch, we should just leave regs->tnpc as-is. This covers cases like 'jmpl' which branch to absolute values. - To be absolutely %100 safe, we need to flush the instruction cache for all assignments to kprobe->ainsn.insn[], including cases like add_aggr_kprobe() - prev_kprobe's status field needs to be 'unsigned long' to match the type of the value it is saving - jprobes were totally broken: = jprobe_return() can run in the stack frame of the jprobe handler, or in an even deeper stack frame, thus we'll be in the wrong register window than the one from the original probe state. So unwind using 'restore' instructions, if necessary, right before we do the jprobe_return() breakpoint trap. = There is no reason to save/restore the register window saved at %sp at jprobe trigger time. Those registers cannot be modified by the jprobe handler. Also, this code was saving and restoring "sizeof (struct sparc_stackf)" bytes. Depending upon the caller, this could clobber unrelated stack frame pieces if there is only a basic 128-byte register window stored on the stack, without the argument save area. So just saving and restoring struct pt_regs is sufficient. = Kill the "jprobe_saved_esp", totally unused. Also, delete "jprobe_saved_regs_location", with the stack frame unwind now done explicitly by jprobe_return(), this check is superfluous. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-10[SPARC64]: Update defconfig.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-10[SPARC{32,64}]: Propagate ptrace_traceme() return value.Alexey Dobriyan
ptrace_traceme() consolidation made ret = ptrace_traceme(); dead write. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-10[SPARC64]: Replace kmalloc+memset with kzallocYan Burman
Replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc Signed-off-by: Yan Burman <burman.yan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-10[SPARC64]: Run ctrl-alt-del action for sun4v powerdown request.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-10[SPARC64]: Unaligned accesses to userspace are hard errors.David S. Miller
Userspace is forbidden from making unaligned loads and stores. So if we get an unaligned trap due to a {get,put}_user(), signal a fault and run the exception handler. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-10[SPARC64]: Call do_mathemu on illegal instruction traps too.David S. Miller
To add this logic, put the VIS instruction check at the vis_emul() call site instead of inside of vis_emul(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-10[SPARC64]: Update defconfig.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-10[SPARC64]: Add irqtrace/stacktrace/lockdep support.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-08[PATCH] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernelDavid Howells
This facility provides three entry points: ilog2() Log base 2 of unsigned long ilog2_u32() Log base 2 of u32 ilog2_u64() Log base 2 of u64 These facilities can either be used inside functions on dynamic data: int do_something(long q) { ...; y = ilog2(x) ...; } Or can be used to statically initialise global variables with constant values: unsigned n = ilog2(27); When performing static initialisation, the compiler will report "error: initializer element is not constant" if asked to take a log of zero or of something not reducible to a constant. They treat negative numbers as unsigned. When not dealing with a constant, they fall back to using fls() which permits them to use arch-specific log calculation instructions - such as BSR on x86/x86_64 or SCAN on FRV - if available. [akpm@osdl.org: MMC fix] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Wojtek Kaniewski <wojtekka@toxygen.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] struct path: convert sparc64Josef Sipek
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] tty: ->signal->tty lockingPeter Zijlstra
Fix the locking of signal->tty. Use ->sighand->siglock to protect ->signal->tty; this lock is already used by most other members of ->signal/->sighand. And unless we are 'current' or the tasklist_lock is held we need ->siglock to access ->signal anyway. (NOTE: sys_unshare() is broken wrt ->sighand locking rules) Note that tty_mutex is held over tty destruction, so while holding tty_mutex any tty pointer remains valid. Otherwise the lifetime of ttys are governed by their open file handles. This leaves some holes for tty access from signal->tty (or any other non file related tty access). It solves the tty SLAB scribbles we were seeing. (NOTE: the change from group_send_sig_info to __group_send_sig_info needs to be examined by someone familiar with the security framework, I think it is safe given the SEND_SIG_PRIV from other __group_send_sig_info invocations) [schwidefsky@de.ibm.com: 3270 fix] [akpm@osdl.org: various post-viro fixes] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (156 commits) [PATCH] x86-64: Export smp_call_function_single [PATCH] i386: Clean up smp_tune_scheduling() [PATCH] unwinder: move .eh_frame to RODATA [PATCH] unwinder: fully support linker generated .eh_frame_hdr section [PATCH] x86-64: don't use set_irq_regs() [PATCH] x86-64: check vector in setup_ioapic_dest to verify if need setup_IO_APIC_irq [PATCH] x86-64: Make ix86 default to HIGHMEM4G instead of NOHIGHMEM [PATCH] i386: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc [PATCH] x86-64: remove remaining pc98 code [PATCH] x86-64: remove unused variable [PATCH] x86-64: Fix constraints in atomic_add_return() [PATCH] x86-64: fix asm constraints in i386 atomic_add_return [PATCH] x86-64: Correct documentation for bzImage protocol v2.05 [PATCH] x86-64: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc in MTRR code [PATCH] x86-64: Fix numaq build error [PATCH] x86-64: include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h isn't a userspace header [PATCH] unwinder: Add debugging output to the Dwarf2 unwinder [PATCH] x86-64: Clarify error message in GART code [PATCH] x86-64: Fix interrupt race in idle callback (3rd try) [PATCH] x86-64: Remove unwind stack pointer alignment forcing again ... Fixed conflict in include/linux/uaccess.h manually Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] elf: Always define elf_addr_t in linux/elf.hMagnus Damm
Define elf_addr_t in linux/elf.h. The size of the type is determined using ELF_CLASS. This allows us to remove the defines that today are spread all over .c and .h files. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_tChristoph Lameter
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache. The patch was generated using the following script: #!/bin/sh # # Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources. # set -e for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do quilt add $file sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$ mv /tmp/$$ $file quilt refresh done The script was run like this sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] shared page table for hugetlb pageChen, Kenneth W
Following up with the work on shared page table done by Dave McCracken. This set of patch target shared page table for hugetlb memory only. The shared page table is particular useful in the situation of large number of independent processes sharing large shared memory segments. In the normal page case, the amount of memory saved from process' page table is quite significant. For hugetlb, the saving on page table memory is not the primary objective (as hugetlb itself already cuts down page table overhead significantly), instead, the purpose of using shared page table on hugetlb is to allow faster TLB refill and smaller cache pollution upon TLB miss. With PT sharing, pte entries are shared among hundreds of processes, the cache consumption used by all the page table is smaller and in return, application gets much higher cache hit ratio. One other effect is that cache hit ratio with hardware page walker hitting on pte in cache will be higher and this helps to reduce tlb miss latency. These two effects contribute to higher application performance. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] relocatable kernel: Kallsyms generate relocatable symbolsEric W. Biederman
Print the addresses of non-absolute symbols relative to _text so that ld will generate relocations. Allowing a relocatable kernel to relocate them. We can't actually use the symbol names because kallsyms includes static symbols that are not exported from their object files. Add the _text symbol definitions to the architectures which don't define it otherwise linker will fail. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-01PCI: Use pci_generic_prep_mwi on sparc64Matthew Wilcox
The setting of the CACHE_LINE_SIZE register in sparc64's pci initialisation code isn't quite adequate as the device may have incompatible requirements. The generic code tests for this, so switch sparc64 over to using it. Since sparc64 has different L1 cache line size and PCI cache line size, it would need to override the generic code like i386 and ia64 do. We know what the cache line size is at compile time though, so introduce a new optional constant PCI_CACHE_LINE_BYTES. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-11-05[SPARC]: Fix robust futex syscalls and wire up migrate_pages.David S. Miller
When I added the entries for the robust futex syscall entries, I forgot to bump NR_SYSCALLS. The current situation is error-prone because NR_SYSCALLS lives in entry.S where the system call limit checks are enforced. Move the definition to asm/unistd.h in order to make this mistake much more difficult to make. And wire up sys_migrate_pages since the powerpc folks implemented the compat wrapper for us. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-30[SPARC64]: Add some missing print_symbol() calls.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-30[SPARC64]: Fix Tomatillo/Schizo IRQ handling.David S. Miller
The code in schizo_irq_trans_init() should set irq_data->sync_reg to the location of the SYNC register if this is Tomatillo, and set it to zero otherwise. But that is not what it is doing. As a result, non-Tomatillo systems were trying to access a non-existent register resulting in bus errors at the first PCI interrupt. Thanks to Roland Stigge for the bug report. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-27Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC]: Fix bus_id[] string overflow.
2006-10-27[PATCH] vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sectionsAndrew Morton
Add a vmlinux.lds.h helper macro for defining the eight-level initcall table, teach all the architectures to use it. This is a prerequisite for a patch which performs initcall synchronisation for multithreaded-probing. Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [ Added AVR32 as well ] Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-27[SPARC]: Fix bus_id[] string overflow.David S. Miller
dp->path_component_name can be larger than ->bus_id[] so use a different naming scheme for this stuff. Noticed by Jurij Smakov. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-25[SPARC64]: Fix memory corruption in pci_4u_free_consistent().David S. Miller
The second argument to free_npages() was being incorrectly calculated, which would thus access far past the end of the arena->map[] bitmap. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-25[SPARC64]: Fix central/FHC bus handling on Ex000 systems.David S. Miller
1) probe_other_fhcs() wants to see only non-central FHC busses, so skip FHCs that don't sit off the root 2) Like SBUS, FHC can lack the appropriate address and size cell count properties, so add an of_busses[] entry and handlers for that. 3) Central FHC irq translator probing was buggy. We were trying to use dp->child in irq_trans_init but that linkage is not setup at this point. So instead, pass in the parent of "dp" and look for the child "fhc" with parent "central". Thanks to the tireless assistence of Ben Collins in tracking down these problems and testing out these fixes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-19[SPARC64]: Fix of_ioremap().David S. Miller
Use request_mem_region() if IORESOURCE_MEM. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-19[SPARC64]: Compute dma_end argument to sabre_pbm_init() correctly.David S. Miller
virtual-dma property layout is [start, size] not [start, end]. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-17[SPARC64]: Update defconfig.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>