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2005-09-11Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
2005-09-11Pull sn-features into release branchTony Luck
2005-09-11Pull sim-fixes into release branchTony Luck
2005-09-11[IA64] MCA/INIT: remove obsolete unwind codeKeith Owens
Delete the special case unwind code that was only used by the old MCA/INIT handler. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-11[IA64] MCA/INIT: remove the physical mode path from minstate.hKeith Owens
Remove the physical mode path from minstate.h. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-11[PATCH] MCA/INIT: use per cpu stacksKeith Owens
The bulk of the change. Use per cpu MCA/INIT stacks. Change the SAL to OS state (sos) to be per process. Do all the assembler work on the MCA/INIT stacks, leaving the original stack alone. Pass per cpu state data to the C handlers for MCA and INIT, which also means changing the mca_drv interfaces slightly. Lots of verification on whether the original stack is usable before converting it to a sleeping process. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-11[IA64] MCA/INIT: avoid reading INIT record during INIT eventKeith Owens
Reading the INIT record from SAL during the INIT event has proved to be unreliable, and a source of hangs during INIT processing. The new MCA/INIT handlers remove the need to get the INIT record from SAL. Change salinfo.c so mca.c can just flag that a new record is available, without having to read the record during INIT processing. This patch can be applied without the new MCA/INIT handlers. Also clean up some usage of NR_CPUS which should have been using cpu_online(). Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-11mips: rename offsets.c to asm-offsets.cSam Ravnborg
Cannot build MIPS now. We need to change offset.c to asm-offsets.c Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-11kbuild: rename prepare to archprepare to fix dependency chainSam Ravnborg
When introducing the generic asm-offsets.h support the dependency chain for the prepare targets was changed. All build scripts expecting include/asm/asm-offsets.h to be made when using the prepare target would broke. With the limited number of prepare targets left in arch Makefiles the trivial solution was to introduce a new arch specific target: archprepare The dependency chain looks like this now: prepare | +--> prepare0 | +--> archprepare | +--> scripts_basic +--> prepare1 | +---> prepare2 | +--> prepare3 So prepare 3 is processed before prepare2 etc. This guaantees that the asm symlink, version.h, scripts_basic are all updated before archprepare is processed. prepare0 which build the asm-offsets.h file will need the actions performed by archprepare. The head target is now named prepare, because users scripts will most likely use that target, but prepare-all has been kept for compatibility. Updated Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] uml: avoid already done dirtyingPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
The PTE returned from handle_mm_fault is already marked as dirty and accessed if needed. Also, since this is not set with set_pte() (which sets NEWPAGE and NEWPROT as needed), this wouldn't work anyway. This version has been updated and fixed, thanks to some feedback from Jeff Dike. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] uml: fix fault handler on writePaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
The UML fault handler was recently changed to enforce PROT_NONE protections, by requiring VM_READ or VM_EXEC on VMA's. However, by mistake, things were changed such that VM_READ is always checked, also on write faults; so a VMA mapped with only PROT_WRITE is not readable (unless it's prefaulted with MAP_POPULATE or with a write), which is different from i386. Discovered while testing remap_file_pages protection support. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] uml: inline mk_pte and various friendsPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Turns out that, for UML, a *lot* of VM-related trivial functions are not inlined but rather normal functions. In other sections of UML code, this is justified by having files which interact with the host and cannot therefore include kernel headers, but in this case there's no such justification. I've had to turn many of them to macros because of missing declarations. While doing this, I've decided to reuse some already existing macros. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] x86_64 linker script cleanups for debug sectionsPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Use the new macros for x86_64 too. Note that the current scripts includes different definitions; more exactly, it only contains part of the DWARF2 sections and the .comment one from Stabs. Shouldn't be a problem, anyway. Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] i386 / uml: add dwarf sections to static link scriptPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Inside the linker script, insert the code for DWARF debug info sections. This may help GDB'ing a Uml binary. Actually, it seems that ld is able to guess what I added correctly, but normal linker scripts include this section so it should be correct anyway adding it. On request by Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, I've added it to asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.s. I've also moved there the stabs debug section, used the new macro in i386 linker script and added DWARF debug section to that. In the truth, I've not been able to verify the difference in GDB behaviour after this change (I've seen large improvements with another patch). This may depend on my binutils version, older one may have worse defaults. However, this section is present in normal linker script, so add it at least for the sake of cleanness. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] Uml: more cleaningPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
We must remove even arch/um/os-Linux/util/mk_user_constants, which we don't do. Also, Kconfig_arch must be listed only once, between CLEAN_FILES. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm Linus Torvalds
2005-09-10[PATCH] powerpc: Move include3 to arch/$(ARCH)/includeStephen Rothwell
This is less troublesome and makes more sense. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] ppc32: support hotplug cpu on powermacsPaul Mackerras
This allows cpus to be off-lined on 32-bit SMP powermacs. When a cpu is off-lined, it is put into sleep mode with interrupts disabled. It can be on-lined again by asserting its soft-reset pin, which is connected to a GPIO pin. With this I can off-line the second cpu in my dual G4 powermac, which means that I can then suspend the machine (the suspend/resume code refuses to suspend if more than one cpu is online, and making it cope with multiple cpus is surprisingly messy). Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] ppc32: Kill init on unhandled synchronous signalsPaul Mackerras
This is a patch that I have had in my tree for ages. If init causes an exception that raises a signal, such as a SIGSEGV, SIGILL or SIGFPE, and it hasn't registered a handler for it, we don't deliver the signal, since init doesn't get any signals that it doesn't have a handler for. But that means that we just return to userland and generate the same exception again immediately. With this patch we print a message and kill init in this situation. This is very useful when you have a bug in the kernel that means that init doesn't get as far as executing its first instruction. :) Without this patch the system hangs when it gets to starting the userland init; with it you at least get a message giving you a clue about what has gone wrong. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] mips: fix-up schedule_timeout() usageNishanth Aravamudan
Use schedule_timeout_interruptible() instead of set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size. Also, replace custom timespectojiffies() function with globally availabe timespec_to_jiffies(). Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] i386: fix-up schedule_timeout() usageNishanth Aravamudan
Use schedule_timeout_interruptible() instead of set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] alpha: fix-up schedule_timeout() usageNishanth Aravamudan
Use schedule_timeout_interruptible() instead of set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] i386/x86_64: make get_cpu_vendor() staticAdrian Bunk
get_cpu_vendor() no longer has any users in other files. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] remove ACPI S4bios supportPavel Machek
Remove S4BIOS support. It is pretty useless, and only ever worked for _me_ once. (I do not think anyone else ever tried it). It was in feature-removal for a long time, and it should have been removed before. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] janitor: sh: hd64465: minmax-removalMichael Veeck
Patch removes unnecessary min/max macros and changes calls to use kernel.h macros instead. Signed-off-by: Michael Veeck <michael.veeck@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Maximilian Attems <janitor@sternwelten.at> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] janitor: sh: bigsur/io: minmax-removalMichael Veeck
Patch removes unnecessary min/max macros and changes calls to use kernel.h macros instead. Signed-off-by: Michael Veeck <michael.veeck@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Maximilian Attems <janitor@sternwelten.at> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] merge some from Rusty's trivial patchesAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the most trivial from Rusty's trivial patches: - spelling fixes - remove duplicate includes Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] i386/smpboot: use msleep() instead of schedule_timeout()Nishanth Aravamudan
Replace schedule_timeout() with msleep() to guarantee the task delays as expected. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] SH64: C99 initializers for hw_interrupt_type structuresThomas Gleixner
Convert the initializers of hw_interrupt_type structures to C99 initializers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] V850: C99 initializers for hw_interrupt_type structuresThomas Gleixner
Convert the initializers of hw_interrupt_type structures to C99 initializers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] SH: C99 initializers for hw_interrupt_type structuresThomas Gleixner
Convert the initializers of hw_interrupt_type structures to C99 initializers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] PPC: C99 initializers for hw_interrupt_type structuresThomas Gleixner
Convert the initializers of hw_interrupt_type structures to C99 initializers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] Remove even more stale references to Documentation/smp.texArthur Othieno
Randy cleaned out the bulk of these stale references to the now long gone Documentation/smp.tex back in 2004. I followed this up with a few more sweeps. Somehow, these have managed to sneak back in since. I can't seem to figure out a contact point for M32R (no one listed in MAINTAINERS!), but, these patches are only but trivial. Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <a.othieno@bluewin.ch> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] spinlock consolidationIngo Molnar
This patch (written by me and also containing many suggestions of Arjan van de Ven) does a major cleanup of the spinlock code. It does the following things: - consolidates and enhances the spinlock/rwlock debugging code - simplifies the asm/spinlock.h files - encapsulates the raw spinlock type and moves generic spinlock features (such as ->break_lock) into the generic code. - cleans up the spinlock code hierarchy to get rid of the spaghetti. Most notably there's now only a single variant of the debugging code, located in lib/spinlock_debug.c. (previously we had one SMP debugging variant per architecture, plus a separate generic one for UP builds) Also, i've enhanced the rwlock debugging facility, it will now track write-owners. There is new spinlock-owner/CPU-tracking on SMP builds too. All locks have lockup detection now, which will work for both soft and hard spin/rwlock lockups. The arch-level include files now only contain the minimally necessary subset of the spinlock code - all the rest that can be generalized now lives in the generic headers: include/asm-i386/spinlock_types.h | 16 include/asm-x86_64/spinlock_types.h | 16 I have also split up the various spinlock variants into separate files, making it easier to see which does what. The new layout is: SMP | UP ----------------------------|----------------------------------- asm/spinlock_types_smp.h | linux/spinlock_types_up.h linux/spinlock_types.h | linux/spinlock_types.h asm/spinlock_smp.h | linux/spinlock_up.h linux/spinlock_api_smp.h | linux/spinlock_api_up.h linux/spinlock.h | linux/spinlock.h /* * here's the role of the various spinlock/rwlock related include files: * * on SMP builds: * * asm/spinlock_types.h: contains the raw_spinlock_t/raw_rwlock_t and the * initializers * * linux/spinlock_types.h: * defines the generic type and initializers * * asm/spinlock.h: contains the __raw_spin_*()/etc. lowlevel * implementations, mostly inline assembly code * * (also included on UP-debug builds:) * * linux/spinlock_api_smp.h: * contains the prototypes for the _spin_*() APIs. * * linux/spinlock.h: builds the final spin_*() APIs. * * on UP builds: * * linux/spinlock_type_up.h: * contains the generic, simplified UP spinlock type. * (which is an empty structure on non-debug builds) * * linux/spinlock_types.h: * defines the generic type and initializers * * linux/spinlock_up.h: * contains the __raw_spin_*()/etc. version of UP * builds. (which are NOPs on non-debug, non-preempt * builds) * * (included on UP-non-debug builds:) * * linux/spinlock_api_up.h: * builds the _spin_*() APIs. * * linux/spinlock.h: builds the final spin_*() APIs. */ All SMP and UP architectures are converted by this patch. arm, i386, ia64, ppc, ppc64, s390/s390x, x64 was build-tested via crosscompilers. m32r, mips, sh, sparc, have not been tested yet, but should be mostly fine. From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Booted and lightly tested on a500-44 (64-bit, SMP kernel, dual CPU). Builds 32-bit SMP kernel (not booted or tested). I did not try to build non-SMP kernels. That should be trivial to fix up later if necessary. I converted bit ops atomic_hash lock to raw_spinlock_t. Doing so avoids some ugly nesting of linux/*.h and asm/*.h files. Those particular locks are well tested and contained entirely inside arch specific code. I do NOT expect any new issues to arise with them. If someone does ever need to use debug/metrics with them, then they will need to unravel this hairball between spinlocks, atomic ops, and bit ops that exist only because parisc has exactly one atomic instruction: LDCW (load and clear word). From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> ia64 fix Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild Linus Torvalds
2005-09-09[PATCH] Update PCI IOMEM allocation startDaniel Ritz
This fixes the problem with "Averatec 6240 pcmcia_socket0: unable to apply power", which was due to the CardBus IOMEM register region being allocated at an address that was actually inside the RAM window that had been reserved for video frame-buffers in an UMA setup. The BIOS _should_ have marked that region reserved in the e820 memory descriptor tables, but did not. It is fixed by rounding up the default starting address of PCI memory allocations, so that we leave a bigger gap after the final known memory location. The amount of rounding depends on how big the unused memory gap is that we can allocate IOMEM from. Based on example code by Linus. Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Acked-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] lost fput in 32bit ioctl on x86-64Kirill Korotaev
This adds a lost fput in 32bit tiocgdev ioctl on x86-64 [ chrisw: Updated to use fget_light/fput_light ] Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> Signed-Off-By: Maxim Giryaev <gem@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09kbuild: um fix so it compile with generic asm-offsets.h supportSam Ravnborg
um has it own set of files for asm-offsets. So for now the gen-asm-offset macro is just duplicated in the um Makefile. This may well be the final solution since um is a bit special compared to other architectures - time will tell. Also added a dummy arch/um/kernel/asm-offsets.h file to keep kbuild happy. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] more SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED -> DEFINE_SPINLOCK conversionsIngo Molnar
This converts the final 20 DEFINE_SPINLOCK holdouts. (another 580 places are already using DEFINE_SPINLOCK). Build tested on x86. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMERIngo Molnar
Clean up timer initialization by introducing DEFINE_TIMER a'la DEFINE_SPINLOCK. Build and boot-tested on x86. A similar patch has been been in the -RT tree for some time. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] s3c2410fb: Platform support for ARM S3C2410 framebuffer driverArnaud Patard
This patch add the plateform specific stuff needed to configure and use the driver. Signed-Off-By: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben@trinity.fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] fbdev: Resurrect hooks to get EDID from firmwareAntonino A. Daplas
For the i386, code is already present in video.S that gets the EDID from the video BIOS. Make this visible so drivers can also use this data as fallback when i2c does not work. To ensure that the EDID block is returned for the primary graphics adapter only, by check if the IORESOURCE_ROM_SHADOW flag is set. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] vesafb: Add blanking supportAntonino A. Daplas
Add rudimentary support by manipulating the VGA registers. However, not all vesa modes are VGA compatible, so VGA compatiblity is checked first. Only 2 levels are supported, powerup and powerdown. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] files: lock-free fd look-upDipankar Sarma
With the use of RCU in files structure, the look-up of files using fds can now be lock-free. The lookup is protected by rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock(). This patch changes the readers to use lock-free lookup. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran_th@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] files-sparc64-fix 2Dipankar Sarma
Fix sparc64 timod to use the new files_fdtable() api to get the fd table. This is necessary for RCUification. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] files: break up files structDipankar Sarma
In order for the RCU to work, the file table array, sets and their sizes must be updated atomically. Instead of ensuring this through too many memory barriers, we put the arrays and their sizes in a separate structure. This patch takes the first step of putting the file table elements in a separate structure fdtable that is embedded withing files_struct. It also changes all the users to refer to the file table using files_fdtable() macro. Subsequent applciation of RCU becomes easier after this. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] Prefetch kernel stacks to speed up context switchChen, Kenneth W
For architecture like ia64, the switch stack structure is fairly large (currently 528 bytes). For context switch intensive application, we found that significant amount of cache misses occurs in switch_to() function. The following patch adds a hook in the schedule() function to prefetch switch stack structure as soon as 'next' task is determined. This allows maximum overlap in prefetch cache lines for that structure. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] alpha: process_reloc_for_got confuses r_offset and r_addendChaskiel Grundman
arch/alpha/kernel/module.c:process_reloc_for_got(), which figures out how big the .got section for a module should be, appears to be confusing r_offset (the file offset that the relocation needs to be applied to) with r_addend (the offset of the relocation's actual target address from the address of the relocation's symbol). Because of this, one .got entry is allocated for each relocation instead of one each unique symbol/addend. In the module I am working with, this causes the .got section to be almost 10 times larger than it needs to be (75544 bytes instead of 7608 bytes). As the .got is accessed with global-pointer-relative instructions, it needs to be within the 64k gp "zone", and a 75544 byte .got clearly does not fit. The result of this is that relocation overflows are detected during module load and the load is aborted. Change struct got_entry/process_reloc_for_got to fix this. Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] x86_64: Don't call enforce_max_cpus when hotplug is enabledAshok Raj
enforce_max_cpus nukes out cpu_present_map and cpu_possible_map making it impossible to add new cpus in the system. Since it doesnt provide any additional value apart this call and reference is removed. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] x86_64: Don't do broadcast IPIs when hotplug is enabled in flat mode.Ashok Raj
The use of non-shortcut version of routines breaking CPU hotplug. The option to select this via cmdline also is deleted with the physflat patch, hence directly placing this code under CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU. We dont want to use broadcast mode IPI's when hotplug is enabled. This causes bad effects in send IPI to a cpu that is offline which can trip when the cpu is in the process of being kicked alive. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>