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Most of these fixes were already submitted for old kernel versions, and were
approved, but for some reason they never made it into the releases.
Because this is a consolidation of a couple old missed patches, it touches both
Kconfigs and documentation texts.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Spelling fixes in arch/x86_64/.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Spelling fixes in arch/v850/.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Spelling fixes in arch/um/.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Spelling fixes in arch/m68k/.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Spelling fixes in arch/m32r/.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Spelling fixes in arch/i386/.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Spelling fixes in arch/h8300/.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Spelling fixes in arch/frv/.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Spelling fixes in arch/cris/.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Spelling fixes in arch/alpha/.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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a rather obvious fix given the opening of the function:
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static __init int no_ipi_broadcast(char *str)
{
get_option(&str, &no_broadcast);
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Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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* Convert files to UTF-8.
* Also correct some people's names
(one example is Eißfeldt, which was found in a source file.
Given that the author used an ß at all in a source file
indicates that the real name has in fact a 'ß' and not an 'ss',
which is commonly used as a substitute for 'ß' when limited to
7bit.)
* Correct town names (Goettingen -> Göttingen)
* Update Eberhard Mönkeberg's address (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/8/313)
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Fix the various misspellings of "system", controller", "interrupt" and
"[un]necessary".
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (41 commits)
ACPICA: hw: Don't carry spinlock over suspend
ACPICA: hw: remove use_lock flag from acpi_hw_register_{read, write}
ACPI: cpuidle: port idle timer suspend/resume workaround to cpuidle
ACPI: clean up acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep
Hibernation: Make sure that ACPI is enabled in acpi_hibernation_finish
ACPI: suppress uninitialized var warning
cpuidle: consolidate 2.6.22 cpuidle branch into one patch
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: skip blanks before the data when parsing sysfs
ACPI: AC: Add sysfs interface
ACPI: SBS: Add sysfs alarm
ACPI: SBS: Add ACPI_PROCFS around procfs handling code.
ACPI: SBS: Add support for power_supply class (and sysfs)
ACPI: SBS: Make SBS reads table-driven.
ACPI: SBS: Simplify data structures in SBS
ACPI: SBS: Split host controller (ACPI0001) from SBS driver (ACPI0002)
ACPI: EC: Add new query handler to list head.
ACPI: Add acpi_bus_generate_event4() function
ACPI: Battery: add sysfs alarm
ACPI: Battery: Add sysfs support
ACPI: Battery: Misc clean-ups, no functional changes
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Fix up conflicts in drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.[ch] manually
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] Delete totally outdated Documentation/mips/time.README
[MIPS] Kill duplicated setup_irq() for cp0 timer
[MIPS] Sibyte: Finish conversion to modern time APIs.
[MIPS] time: Helpers to compute clocksource/event shift and mult values.
[MIPS] SMTC: Build fix.
[MIPS] time: Delete dead code.
[MIPS] MIPSsim: Strip defconfig file to the bones.
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* ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86:
x86: fix global_flush_tlb() bug
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Quoting Randy:
"It seems sad that this patch sources Kconfig.marker, a 7-line file,
20-something times. Yes, you (we) don't want to put those 7 lines into
20-something different files, so sourcing is the right thing.
However, what you did for avr32 seems more on the right track to me: make
_one_ Instrumentation support menu that includes PROFILING, OPROFILE, KPROBES,
and MARKERS and then use (source) that in all of the arches."
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch removes the crashkernel parsing from arch/sh/kernel/machine_kexec.c
and calls the generic function, introduced in the generic patch, in
setup_bootmem_allocator().
This is necessary because the amount of System RAM must be known in this
function now because of the new syntax.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adapts the ppc64 code to use the generic parse_crashkernel()
function introduced in the generic patch of that series.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adapts IA64 to use the generic parse_crashkernel() function instead
of its own parsing for the crashkernel command line.
Because the total amount of System RAM must be known when calling this
function, efi_memmap_init() is modified to return its accumulated total_memory
variable.
Also, the crashkernel handling is moved in an own function in
arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c to make the code more readable.
[kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch removes the crashkernel parsing from
arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c and calls the generic function, introduced
in the last patch, in setup_bootmem_allocator().
This is necessary because the amount of System RAM must be known in this
function now because of the new syntax.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch removes the crashkernel parsing from
arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c and calls the generic function, introduced in
the last patch, in setup_bootmem_allocator().
This is necessary because the amount of System RAM must be known in this
function now because of the new syntax.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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One of the easiest things to isolate is the pid printed in kernel log.
There was a patch, that made this for arch-independent code, this one makes
so for arch/xxx files.
It took some time to cross-compile it, but hopefully these are all the
printks in arch code.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.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>
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define global BIT macro
move all local BIT defines to the new globally define macro.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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remove asm/bitops.h includes
including asm/bitops directly may cause compile errors. don't include it
and include linux/bitops instead. next patch will deny including asm header
directly.
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This is the largest patch in the set. Make all (I hope) the places where
the pid is shown to or get from user operate on the virtual pids.
The idea is:
- all in-kernel data structures must store either struct pid itself
or the pid's global nr, obtained with pid_nr() call;
- when seeking the task from kernel code with the stored id one
should use find_task_by_pid() call that works with global pids;
- when showing pid's numerical value to the user the virtual one
should be used, but however when one shows task's pid outside this
task's namespace the global one is to be used;
- when getting the pid from userspace one need to consider this as
the virtual one and use appropriate task/pid-searching functions.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded casts]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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is_init() is an ambiguous name for the pid==1 check. Split it into
is_global_init() and is_container_init().
A cgroup init has it's tsk->pid == 1.
A global init also has it's tsk->pid == 1 and it's active pid namespace
is the init_pid_ns. But rather than check the active pid namespace,
compare the task structure with 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper', which is
initialized during boot to the /sbin/init process and never changes.
Changelog:
2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1:
- Use 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper' to determine if a given task is the
global init (/sbin/init) process. This would improve performance
and remove dependence on the task_pid().
2.6.21-mm2-pidns2:
- [Sukadev Bhattiprolu] Changed is_container_init() calls in {powerpc,
ppc,avr32}/traps.c for the _exception() call to is_global_init().
This way, we kill only the cgroup if the cgroup's init has a
bug rather than force a kernel panic.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Use is_global_init() in arch/m32r/mm/fault.c]
[bunk@stusta.de: kernel/pid.c: remove unused exports]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix capability.c to work with threaded init]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The set of functions process_session, task_session, process_group and
task_pgrp is confusing, as the names can be mixed with each other when looking
at the code for a long time.
The proposals are to
* equip the functions that return the integer with _nr suffix to
represent that fact,
* and to make all functions work with task (not process) by making
the common prefix of the same name.
For monotony the routines signal_session() and set_signal_session() are
replaced with task_session_nr() and set_task_session(), especially since they
are only used with the explicit task->signal dereference.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In pre-cgroup cpusets, a few config files enabled cpusets by default.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch uses vm_get_page_prot() to setup vma->vm_page_prot.
Though inside vm_get_page_prot() the protection flags is AND with
(VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED), it does not hurt correct code.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <coyli@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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copy_oldmem_page should not return leaving a page frame from the
previous kernel mapped.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Also many plat_timer_setup() can be killed too.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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MIPSsim simulates only a barebone system, no point in a fancy kernel.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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While we were reviewing pageattr_32/64.c for unification,
Thomas Gleixner noticed the following serious SMP bug in
global_flush_tlb():
down_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
list_replace_init(&deferred_pages, &l);
up_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
this is SMP-unsafe because list_replace_init() done on two CPUs in
parallel can corrupt the list.
This bug has been introduced about a year ago in the 64-bit tree:
commit ea7322decb974a4a3e804f96a0201e893ff88ce3
Author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Thu Dec 7 02:14:05 2006 +0100
[PATCH] x86-64: Speed and clean up cache flushing in change_page_attr
down_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
- dpage = xchg(&deferred_pages, NULL);
+ list_replace_init(&deferred_pages, &l);
up_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
the xchg() based version was SMP-safe, but list_replace_init() is not.
So this "cleanup" introduced a nasty bug.
why this bug never become prominent is a mystery - it can probably be
explained with the (still) relative obscurity of the x86_64 architecture.
the safe fix for now is to write-lock init_mm.mmap_sem.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] time: Move R4000 clockevent device code to separate configurable file
[MIPS] time: Delete dead cycles_per_jiffy, mips_timer_ack and null_timer_ack
[MIPS] IP32: Retire use of plat_timer_setup.
[MIPS] Jazz: Retire use of plat_timer_setup.
[MIPS] IP27: Convert to clock_event_device.
[MIPS] JMR3927: Convert to clock_event_device.
[MIPS] Always do the ARC64_TWIDDLE_PC thing.
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (51 commits)
[IPV6]: Fix again the fl6_sock_lookup() fixed locking
[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_tcp: fix connection reopening fix
[IPV6]: Fix race in ipv6_flowlabel_opt() when inserting two labels
[IPV6]: Lost locking in fl6_sock_lookup
[IPV6]: Lost locking when inserting a flowlabel in ipv6_fl_list
[NETFILTER]: xt_sctp: fix mistake to pass a pointer where array is required
[NET]: Fix OOPS due to missing check in dev_parse_header().
[TCP]: Remove lost_retrans zero seqno special cases
[NET]: fix carrier-on bug?
[NET]: Fix uninitialised variable in ip_frag_reasm()
[IPSEC]: Rename mode to outer_mode and add inner_mode
[IPSEC]: Disallow combinations of RO and AH/ESP/IPCOMP
[IPSEC]: Use the top IPv4 route's peer instead of the bottom
[IPSEC]: Store afinfo pointer in xfrm_mode
[IPSEC]: Add missing BEET checks
[IPSEC]: Move type and mode map into xfrm_state.c
[IPSEC]: Fix length check in xfrm_parse_spi
[IPSEC]: Move ip_summed zapping out of xfrm6_rcv_spi
[IPSEC]: Get nexthdr from caller in xfrm6_rcv_spi
[IPSEC]: Move tunnel parsing for IPv4 out of xfrm4_input
...
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC/64]: Consolidate of_register_driver
[SPARC] Videopix Frame Grabber: Convert device_lock_sem to mutex
[SPARC]: Support for new termios.
[SPARC64]: Check of_get_property() return in pci_determine_mem_io_space().
[SPARC64]: Fix boot failures due to bootmem.
[SPARC64]: Implement atomic backoff.
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To be consistent with the use of attributes in the rest of the kernel
replace all use of __attribute_pure__ with __pure and delete the definition
of __attribute_pure__.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Get rid of sparse related warnings from places that use integer as NULL
pointer.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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msr_class_cpu_callback() can be marked __cpuinit, being the notifier callback
for a __cpuinitdata notifier_block. So can be marked msr_device_create() too,
called only from the newly-__cpuinit msr_class_cpu_callback() or from
__init-marked msr_init().
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This adds POWERPC specific hooks for scaled time accounting.
POWER6 includes a SPURR register. The SPURR is based off the PURR register
but is scaled based on CPU frequency and issue rates. This gives a more
accurate account of the instructions used per task. The PURR and timebase
will be constant relative to the wall clock, irrespective of the CPU
frequency.
This implementation reads the SPURR register in account_system_vtime which
is only call called on context witch and hard and soft irq entry and exit.
The percentage of user and system time is then estimated using the ratio of
these accounted by the PURR. If the SPURR is not present, the PURR read.
An earlier implementation of this patch read the SPURR whenever the PURR
was read, which included the system call entry and exit path.
Unfortunately this showed a performance regression on lmbench runs, so was
re-implemented.
I've included the lmbench results here when run bare metal on POWER6. 1st
column is the unpatch results. 2nd column is the results using the below
patch and the 3rd is the % diff of these results from the base. 4th and
5th columns are the results and % differnce from the base using the older
patch (SPURR read in syscall entry/exit path).
Base Scaled-Acct SPURR-in-syscall
Result Result % diff Result % diff
Simple syscall: 0.3086 0.3086 0.0000 0.3452 11.8600
Simple read: 0.4591 0.4671 1.7425 0.5044 9.86713
Simple write: 0.4364 0.4366 0.0458 0.4731 8.40971
Simple stat: 2.0055 2.0295 1.1967 2.0669 3.06158
Simple fstat: 0.5962 0.5876 -1.442 0.6368 6.80979
Simple open/close: 3.1283 3.1009 -0.875 3.2088 2.57328
Select on 10 fd's: 0.8554 0.8457 -1.133 0.8667 1.32101
Select on 100 fd's: 3.5292 3.6329 2.9383 3.6664 3.88756
Select on 250 fd's: 7.9097 8.1881 3.5197 8.2242 3.97613
Select on 500 fd's: 15.2659 15.836 3.7357 15.873 3.97814
Select on 10 tcp fd's: 0.9576 0.9416 -1.670 0.9752 1.83792
Select on 100 tcp fd's: 7.248 7.2254 -0.311 7.2685 0.28283
Select on 250 tcp fd's: 17.7742 17.707 -0.375 17.749 -0.1406
Select on 500 tcp fd's: 35.4258 35.25 -0.496 35.286 -0.3929
Signal handler installation: 0.6131 0.6075 -0.913 0.647 5.52927
Signal handler overhead: 2.0919 2.1078 0.7600 2.1831 4.35967
Protection fault: 0.7345 0.7478 1.8107 0.8031 9.33968
Pipe latency: 33.006 16.398 -50.31 33.475 1.42368
AF_UNIX sock stream latency: 14.5093 30.910 113.03 30.715 111.692
Process fork+exit: 219.8 222.8 1.3648 229.37 4.35623
Process fork+execve: 876.14 873.28 -0.32 868.66 -0.8533
Process fork+/bin/sh -c: 2830 2876.5 1.6431 2958 4.52296
File /var/tmp/XXX write bw: 1193497 1195536 0.1708 118657 -0.5799
Pagefaults on /var/tmp/XXX: 3.1272 3.2117 2.7020 3.2521 3.99398
Also, kernel compile times show no difference with this patch applied.
[pbadari@us.ibm.com: Avoid unnecessary PURR reading]
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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