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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings
mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook
pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section
MAINTAINERS: Add RCU's public git tree
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commit 052dc7c45i "spi/dw_spi: conditional transfer mode change"
introduced cs_control code, which has a bug by using bit offset
for spi mode to set transfer mode in control register. Also it
forces devices who don't need cs_control to re-configure the
control registers for each spi transfer. This patch will fix them
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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The full cleanup of init_MUTEX[_LOCKED] and DECLARE_MUTEX has not been
done. Some of the users are real semaphores and we should name them as
such instead of confusing everyone with "MUTEX".
Provide the infrastructure to get finally rid of init_MUTEX[_LOCKED]
and DECLARE_MUTEX.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100907125054.795929962@linutronix.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: bus speed strings should be const
PCI hotplug: Fix build with CONFIG_ACPI unset
PCI: PCIe: Remove the port driver module exit routine
PCI: PCIe: Move PCIe PME code to the pcie directory
PCI: PCIe: Disable PCIe port services during port initialization
PCI: PCIe: Ask BIOS for control of all native services at once
ACPI/PCI: Negotiate _OSC control bits before requesting them
ACPI/PCI: Do not preserve _OSC control bits returned by a query
ACPI/PCI: Make acpi_pci_query_osc() return control bits
ACPI/PCI: Reorder checks in acpi_pci_osc_control_set()
PCI: PCIe: Introduce commad line switch for disabling port services
PCI: PCIe AER: Introduce pci_aer_available()
x86/PCI: only define pci_domain_nr if PCI and PCI_DOMAINS are set
PCI: provide stub pci_domain_nr function for !CONFIG_PCI configs
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
powerpc/pseries: Correct rtas_data_buf locking in dlpar code
powerpc/85xx: Add P1021 PCI IDs and quirks
arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe.c: Add of_node_put to avoid memory leak
arch/powerpc/platforms/83xx/mpc837x_mds.c: Add missing iounmap
fsl_rio: fix compile errors
powerpc/85xx: Fix compile issue with p1022_ds due to lmb rename to memblock
powerpc/85xx: Fix compilation of mpc85xx_mds.c
powerpc: Don't use kernel stack with translation off
powerpc/perf_event: Reduce latency of calling perf_event_do_pending
powerpc/kexec: Adds correct calling convention for kexec purgatory
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
percpu: fix a mismatch between code and comment
percpu: fix a memory leak in pcpu_extend_area_map()
percpu: add __percpu notations to UP allocator
percpu: handle __percpu notations in UP accessors
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: use zalloc_cpumask_var() for gcwq->mayday_mask
workqueue: fix GCWQ_DISASSOCIATED initialization
workqueue: Add a workqueue chapter to the tracepoint docbook
workqueue: fix cwq->nr_active underflow
workqueue: improve destroy_workqueue() debuggability
workqueue: mark lock acquisition on worker_maybe_bind_and_lock()
workqueue: annotate lock context change
workqueue: free rescuer on destroy_workqueue
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6:
tty: fix tty_line must not be equal to number of allocated tty pointers in tty driver
serial: bfin_sport_uart: restore transmit frame sync fix
serial: fix port type conflict between NS16550A & U6_16550A
MAINTAINERS: orphan isicom
vt: Fix console corruption on driver hand-over.
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Sandybridge GTT has new cache control bits in PTE, which controls
graphics page cache in LLC or LLC/MLC, so we need to extend the mask
function to respect the new bits.
And set cache control to always LLC only by default on Gen6.
Signed-off-by: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
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cgroup_attach_task_current_cg API that have upstream is backwards: we
really need an API to attach to the cgroups from another process A to
the current one.
In our case (vhost), a priveledged user wants to attach it's task to cgroups
from a less priveledged one, the API makes us run it in the other
task's context, and this fails.
So let's make the API generic and just pass in 'from' and 'to' tasks.
Add an inline wrapper for cgroup_attach_task_current_cg to avoid
breaking bisect.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
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Fixes a bunch of sparse warnings in io-mapping.h because of the
inconsistent __iomem usage.
Signed-off-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
LKML-Reference: <1283633804-11749-2-git-send-email-currojerez@riseup.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Bug seen by Dr. David Alan Gilbert with sparse
Signed-off-by: Philippe Langlais <philippe.langlais@stericsson.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Fix kernel-doc notation in linux/mutex.h and kernel/mutex.c,
then add these 2 files to the kernel-locking docbook as the
Mutex API reference chapter.
Add one API function to mutex-design.txt and correct a typo in
that file.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <20100902154816.6cc2f9ad.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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With CONFIG_GPIOLIB=n, the 'struct gpio_chip' is not declared,
so the following pops up on PowerPC:
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
In file included from arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_common.c:19:
include/linux/of_gpio.h:74: warning: 'struct gpio_chip' declared
inside parameter list
include/linux/of_gpio.h:74: warning: its scope is only this definition
or declaration, which is probably not what
you want
include/linux/of_gpio.h:75: warning: 'struct gpio_chip' declared
inside parameter list
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_common.o] Error 1
This patch fixes the issue by providing the proper forward declaration.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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This is needed for proper PCI-E support on P1021 SoCs.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify:
fsnotify: drop two useless bools in the fnsotify main loop
fsnotify: fix list walk order
fanotify: Return EPERM when a process is not privileged
fanotify: resize pid and reorder structure
fanotify: drop duplicate pr_debug statement
fanotify: flush outstanding perm requests on group destroy
fsnotify: fix ignored mask handling between inode and vfsmount marks
fanotify: add MAINTAINERS entry
fsnotify: reset used_inode and used_vfsmount on each pass
fanotify: do not dereference inode_mark when it is unset
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
vgaarb: Wrap vga_(get|put) in CONFIG_VGA_ARB
drm/radeon/kms: add missing scratch update in dp_detect
drm/modes: Fix CVT-R modeline generation
drm: fix regression in drm locking since BKL removal.
drm/radeon/kms: remove stray radeon_i2c_destroy
drm: mm: fix range restricted allocations
drm/nouveau: drop drm_global_mutex before sleeping in submission path
drm: export drm_global_mutex for drivers to use
drm/nv20: Don't use pushbuf calls on the original nv20.
drm/nouveau: Fix TMDS on some DCB1.5 boards.
drm/nouveau: Fix backlight control on PPC machines with an internal TMDS panel.
drm/nv30: Apply modesetting to the correct slave encoder
drm/nouveau: Use a helper function to match PCI device/subsystem IDs.
drm/nv50: add dcb type 14 to enum to prevent compiler complaint
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Stub out vm_get_page_prot() if there's no MMU.
This was added by commit 804af2cf6e7a ("[AGPGART] remove private page
protection map") and is used in commit c07fbfd17e61 ("fbmem: VM_IO set,
but not propagated") in the fbmem video driver, but the function doesn't
exist on NOMMU, resulting in an undefined symbol at link time.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: pxa27x_keypad - remove input_free_device() in pxa27x_keypad_remove()
Input: mousedev - fix regression of inverting axes
Input: uinput - add devname alias to allow module on-demand load
Input: hil_kbd - fix compile error
USB: drop tty argument from usb_serial_handle_sysrq_char()
Input: sysrq - drop tty argument form handle_sysrq()
Input: sysrq - drop tty argument from sysrq ops handlers
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resize pid and reorder the fanotify_event_metadata so it is naturally
aligned and we can work towards dropping the packed attributed
Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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Fix link failure without the vga arbitrator.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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cwq->nr_active is used to keep track of how many work items are active
for the cpu workqueue, where 'active' is defined as either pending on
global worklist or executing. This is used to implement the
max_active limit and workqueue freezing. If a work item is queued
after nr_active has already reached max_active, the work item doesn't
increment nr_active and is put on the delayed queue and gets activated
later as previous active work items retire.
try_to_grab_pending() which is used in the cancellation path
unconditionally decremented nr_active whether the work item being
cancelled is currently active or delayed, so cancelling a delayed work
item makes nr_active underflow. This breaks max_active enforcement
and triggers BUG_ON() in destroy_workqueue() later on.
This patch fixes this bug by adding a flag WORK_STRUCT_DELAYED, which
is set while a work item in on the delayed list and making
try_to_grab_pending() decrement nr_active iff the work item is
currently active.
The addition of the flag enlarges cwq alignment to 256 bytes which is
getting a bit too large. It's scheduled to be reduced back to 128
bytes by merging WORK_STRUCT_PENDING and WORK_STRUCT_CWQ in the next
devel cycle.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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It is possible that the BIOS will not grant control of all _OSC
features requested via acpi_pci_osc_control_set(), so it is
recommended to negotiate the final set of _OSC features with the
query flag set before calling _OSC to request control of these
features.
To implement it, rework acpi_pci_osc_control_set() so that the caller
can specify the mask of _OSC control bits to negotiate and the mask
of _OSC control bits that are absolutely necessary to it. Then,
acpi_pci_osc_control_set() will run _OSC queries in a loop until
the mask of _OSC control bits returned by the BIOS is equal to the
mask passed to it. Also, before running the _OSC request
acpi_pci_osc_control_set() will check if the caller's required
control bits are present in the final mask.
Using this mechanism we will be able to avoid situations in which the
BIOS doesn't grant control of certain _OSC features, because they
depend on some other _OSC features that have not been requested.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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pa-risc and ia64 have stacks that grow upwards. Check that
they do not run into other mappings. By making VM_GROWSUP
0x0 on architectures that do not ever use it, we can avoid
some unpleasant #ifdefs in check_stack_guard_page().
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now that the worklist is global, having works pending after wq
destruction can easily lead to oops and destroy_workqueue() have
several BUG_ON()s to catch these cases. Unfortunately, BUG_ON()
doesn't tell much about how the work became pending after the final
flush_workqueue().
This patch adds WQ_DYING which is set before the final flush begins.
If a work is requested to be queued on a dying workqueue,
WARN_ON_ONCE() is triggered and the request is ignored. This clearly
indicates which caller is trying to queue a work on a dying workqueue
and keeps the system working in most cases.
Locking rule comment is updated such that the 'I' rule includes
modifying the field from destruction path.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
kobject_uevent: fix typo in comments
firmware_class: fix typo in error path
kobject: Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (29 commits)
ARM: imx: fix build failure concerning otg/ulpi
USB: ftdi_sio: add product ID for Lenz LI-USB
USB: adutux: fix misuse of return value of copy_to_user()
USB: iowarrior: fix misuse of return value of copy_to_user()
USB: xHCI: update ring dequeue pointer when process missed tds
USB: xhci: Remove buggy assignment in next_trb()
USB: ftdi_sio: Add ID for Ionics PlugComputer
USB: serial: io_ti.c: don't return 0 if writing the download record failed
USB: otg: twl4030: fix wrong assumption of starting state
USB: gadget: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure
USB: gadget: fix composite kernel-doc warnings
USB: ssu100: set tty_flags in ssu100_process_packet
USB: ssu100: add disconnect function for ssu100
USB: serial: export symbol usb_serial_generic_disconnect
USB: ssu100: rework logic for TIOCMIWAIT
USB: ssu100: add register parameter to ssu100_setregister
USB: ssu100: remove duplicate #defines in ssu100
USB: ssu100: refine process_packet in ssu100
USB: ssu100: add locking for port private data in ssu100
USB: r8a66597-udc: return -ENOMEM if kzalloc() fails
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Warning(include/linux/usb/composite.h:284): No description found for parameter 'disconnect'
Warning(drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:744): No description found for parameter 'c'
Warning(drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:744): Excess function parameter 'cdev' description in 'usb_string_ids_n'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits)
netfilter: fix CONFIG_COMPAT support
isdn/avm: fix build when PCMCIA is not enabled
header: fix broken headers for user space
e1000e: don't check for alternate MAC addr on parts that don't support it
e1000e: disable ASPM L1 on 82573
ll_temac: Fix poll implementation
netxen: fix a race in netxen_nic_get_stats()
qlnic: fix a race in qlcnic_get_stats()
irda: fix a race in irlan_eth_xmit()
net: sh_eth: remove unused variable
netxen: update version 4.0.74
netxen: fix inconsistent lock state
vlan: Match underlying dev carrier on vlan add
ibmveth: Fix opps during MTU change on an active device
ehea: Fix synchronization between HW and SW send queue
bnx2x: Update bnx2x version to 1.52.53-4
bnx2x: Fix PHY locking problem
rds: fix a leak of kernel memory
netlink: fix compat recvmsg
netfilter: fix userspace header warning
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Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header to avoid a header file
inclusion ordering problem between linux/sysfs.h and linux/kobject.h.
This fixes the build breakage on older versions of gcc.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Currently drivers must do an elevator_exit() + elevator_init()
to switch IO schedulers. There are a few problems with this:
- Since commit 1abec4fdbb142e3ccb6ce99832fae42129134a96,
elevator_init() requires a zeroed out q->elevator
pointer. The two existing in-kernel users don't do that.
- It will only work at initialization time, since using the
above two-staged construct does not properly quisce the queue.
So add elevator_change() which takes care of this, and convert
the elv_iosched_store() sysfs interface to use this helper as well.
Reported-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Kevin Vigor <kevin@vigor.nu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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__packed is only defined in kernel space, so we should use
__attribute__((packed)) for the code shared between kernel and user space.
Two __attribute() annotations are replaced with __attribute__() too.
Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When an fanotify listener is closing it may cause a deadlock between the
listener and the original task doing an fs operation. If the original task
is waiting for a permissions response it will be holding the srcu lock. The
listener cannot clean up and exit until after that srcu lock is syncronized.
Thus deadlock. The fix introduced here is to stop accepting new permissions
events when a listener is shutting down and to grant permission for all
outstanding events. Thus the original task will eventually release the srcu
lock and the listener can complete shutdown.
Reported-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
slab: fix object alignment
slub: add missing __percpu markup in mm/slub_def.h
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It's a really simple list, and several of the users want to go backwards
in it to find the previous vma. So rather than have to look up the
previous entry with 'find_vma_prev()' or something similar, just make it
doubly linked instead.
Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Recent modprobe and udev versions allow to create device nodes
for modules which are not loaded. Only the first access will cause
the in-kernel module loader to pull-in the module. Systems which
never access the device node will not needlessly load the module,
and no longer need init scripts or other facilities to unconditionally
load it.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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Since handle_sysrq() does not take tty as argument anymore we can
drop it from usb_serial_handle_sysrq_char() as well.
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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Sysrq operations do not accept tty argument anymore so no need to pass
it to us.
[Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>: fix build breakage in drm code
caused by sysrq using bool but not including linux/types.h]
[Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>: fix build breakage in s390 keyboadr
driver]
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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kfifo_skip() is currently broken, due to the missing of the internal
helper function. Add it.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Noone is using tty argument so let's get rid of it.
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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"make headers_check" issued the following warning:
CHECK include/linux/netfilter (64 files)
usr/include/linux/netfilter/xt_ipvs.h:19: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
Fix this by as suggested including linux/types.h.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Sachin Sanap <ssanap@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
fs: brlock vfsmount_lock
fs: scale files_lock
lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks
tty: fix fu_list abuse
fs: cleanup files_lock locking
fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash
fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock
apparmor: use task path helpers
fs: dentry allocation consolidation
fs: fix do_lookup false negative
mbcache: Limit the maximum number of cache entries
hostfs ->follow_link() braino
hostfs: dumb (and usually harmless) tpyo - strncpy instead of strlcpy
remove SWRITE* I/O types
kill BH_Ordered flag
vfs: update ctime when changing the file's permission by setfacl
cramfs: only unlock new inodes
fix reiserfs_evict_inode end_writeback second call
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* 'merge-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
spi.h: missing kernel-doc notation, please fix
of: fix missing headers for of_address_to_resource() in MTD and SysACE drivers
of: Fix missing includes
ata: update for of_device to platform_device replacement
microblaze: Fix of: eliminate of_device->node and dev_archdata->{of,prom}_node
microblaze: Fix of/address: Merge all of the bus translation code
booting-without-of: Remove nonexistent chapters from TOC, fix numbering
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fs: scale files_lock
Improve scalability of files_lock by adding per-cpu, per-sb files lists,
protected with an lglock. The lglock provides fast access to the per-cpu lists
to add and remove files. It also provides a snapshot of all the per-cpu lists
(although this is very slow).
One difficulty with this approach is that a file can be removed from the list
by another CPU. We must track which per-cpu list the file is on with a new
variale in the file struct (packed into a hole on 64-bit archs). Scalability
could suffer if files are frequently removed from different cpu's list.
However loads with frequent removal of files imply short interval between
adding and removing the files, and the scheduler attempts to avoid moving
processes too far away. Also, even in the case of cross-CPU removal, the
hardware has much more opportunity to parallelise cacheline transfers with N
cachelines than with 1.
A worst-case test of 1 CPU allocating files subsequently being freed by N CPUs
degenerates to contending on a single lock, which is no worse than before. When
more than one CPU are allocating files, even if they are always freed by
different CPUs, there will be more parallelism than the single-lock case.
Testing results:
On a 2 socket, 8 core opteron, I measure the number of times the lock is taken
to remove the file, the number of times it is removed by the same CPU that
added it, and the number of times it is removed by the same node that added it.
Booting: locks= 25049 cpu-hits= 23174 (92.5%) node-hits= 23945 (95.6%)
kbuild -j16 locks=2281913 cpu-hits=2208126 (96.8%) node-hits=2252674 (98.7%)
dbench 64 locks=4306582 cpu-hits=4287247 (99.6%) node-hits=4299527 (99.8%)
So a file is removed from the same CPU it was added by over 90% of the time.
It remains within the same node 95% of the time.
Tim Chen ran some numbers for a 64 thread Nehalem system performing a compile.
throughput
2.6.34-rc2 24.5
+patch 24.9
us sys idle IO wait (in %)
2.6.34-rc2 51.25 28.25 17.25 3.25
+patch 53.75 18.5 19 8.75
So significantly less CPU time spent in kernel code, higher idle time and
slightly higher throughput.
Single threaded performance difference was within the noise of microbenchmarks.
That is not to say penalty does not exist, the code is larger and more memory
accesses required so it will be slightly slower.
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks
This patch introduces "local-global" locks (lglocks). These can be used to:
- Provide fast exclusive access to per-CPU data, with exclusive access to
another CPU's data allowed but possibly subject to contention, and to provide
very slow exclusive access to all per-CPU data.
- Or to provide very fast and scalable read serialisation, and to provide
very slow exclusive serialisation of data (not necessarily per-CPU data).
Brlocks are also implemented as a short-hand notation for the latter use
case.
Thanks to Paul for local/global naming convention.
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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tty: fix fu_list abuse
tty code abuses fu_list, which causes a bug in remount,ro handling.
If a tty device node is opened on a filesystem, then the last link to the inode
removed, the filesystem will be allowed to be remounted readonly. This is
because fs_may_remount_ro does not find the 0 link tty inode on the file sb
list (because the tty code incorrectly removed it to use for its own purpose).
This can result in a filesystem with errors after it is marked "clean".
Taking idea from Christoph's initial patch, allocate a tty private struct
at file->private_data and put our required list fields in there, linking
file and tty. This makes tty nodes behave the same way as other device nodes
and avoid meddling with the vfs, and avoids this bug.
The error handling is not trivial in the tty code, so for this bugfix, I take
the simple approach of using __GFP_NOFAIL and don't worry about memory errors.
This is not a problem because our allocator doesn't fail small allocs as a rule
anyway. So proper error handling is left as an exercise for tty hackers.
[ Arguably filesystem's device inode would ideally be divorced from the
driver's pseudo inode when it is opened, but in practice it's not clear whether
that will ever be worth implementing. ]
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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fs: cleanup files_lock locking
Lock tty_files with a new spinlock, tty_files_lock; provide helpers to
manipulate the per-sb files list; unexport the files_lock spinlock.
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock
struct fs_struct.lock is an rwlock with the read-side used to protect root and
pwd members while taking references to them. Taking a reference to a path
typically requires just 2 atomic ops, so the critical section is very small.
Parallel read-side operations would have cacheline contention on the lock, the
dentry, and the vfsmount cachelines, so the rwlock is unlikely to ever give a
real parallelism increase.
Replace it with a spinlock to avoid one or two atomic operations in typical
path lookup fastpath.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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These flags aren't real I/O types, but tell ll_rw_block to always
lock the buffer instead of giving up on a failed trylock.
Instead add a new write_dirty_buffer helper that implements this semantic
and use it from the existing SWRITE* callers. Note that the ll_rw_block
code had a bug where it didn't promote WRITE_SYNC_PLUG properly, which
this patch fixes.
In the ufs code clean up the helper that used to call ll_rw_block
to mirror sync_dirty_buffer, which is the function it implements for
compound buffers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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