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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7695
Originally we converted bind/unbind to use a new pci bridge driver.
The driver will add/remove _PRT, so we can eventually remove
.bind/.unbind methods.
But we found that some of the _ADR-Based devices don't have _PRT,
i.e. they are not managed by the new ACPI PCI bridge driver.
So that .bind method is not called for some _ADR-Based devices,
which leads to a failure.
Now we make ACPI PCI Root Bridge Driver scan and binds all _ADR-Based devices
once the driver is loaded, in the .add method of ACPI PCI Root Bridge driver.
Extra code path for calling .bind/.unbind when _ADR-Based devices
are hot added/removed is also added.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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We do this mainly because:
1. hid is used to match ACPI devices and drivers.
.match method which is incompatible to driver model
can be deleted from acpi_driver.ops then.
2. As the .uevent method mark ACPI drivers by PNPID,
fake hid is set to non-PNPID devices so that udev script
can load the right ACPI driver by looking for
"HWID = " or "COMPTID = ".
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Add removal_type in structure acpi_device for hot removal.
ACPI_BUS_REMOVAL_EJECT is used for ACPI device hot removal.
Only one parameter is allowed in .remove method due to driver model.
So removal_type is added to indicate different removal type.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Add acpi_bus_ops in acpi_device to support acpi hot plug.
NOTE: Two methods .add and .start in acpi_driver.ops are
called separately to probe ACPI devices, while only
.probe method is called in driver model.
As executing .add and .start separately is critical
for ACPI device hot plug, we use acpi_bus_ops to
distinguish different code path.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Setup new sysfs framework
1. Remove /sys/firmware/acpi
2. Add ACPI device in device tree.
File "eject" for every device that has _EJ0 method is moved from
/sys/firmware to /sys/devices.
Operation on this file is exactly the same as before.
i.e. echo 1 to "eject" will cause hot removal of this device.
Corresponding changes should be made in userspace for hot removal.
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui<rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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ACPI device/driver registration Interfaces are modified
to follow Linux driver model.
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Add ACPI bus_type for Linux driver model.
1. .shutdown method is added into acpi_driver.ops
needed by bus_type operations.
2. remove useless parameter 'int state' in .resume method.
3. change parameter 'int state'
to 'pm_message_t state' in .suspend method.
Note: The new .uevent method mark ACPI drivers by PNPID instead of by name.
Udev script needs to look for "HWID=" or "COMPTID=" to load
ACPI drivers as a result.
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Add device_driver into acpi_driver for driver model.
Add helper functions 'to_acpi_device' and 'to_acpi_driver'
to get structure acpi_device/acpi_driver by device/device_driver.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Remove the deferred hooks and all related code as scheduled in
feature-removal-schedule.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Make fib6_node 'subtree' depend on IPV6_SUBTREES.
Signed-off-by: Kim Nordlund <kim.nordlund@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Ivan Skytte Jorgensen <isj-sctp@i1.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Currently in SCTP, we maintain a local address list by rebuilding the whole
list from the device list whenever we get a address add/delete event.
This patch fixes it by only adding/deleting the address for which we
receive the event.
Also removed the sctp_local_addr_lock() which is no longer needed as we
now use list_for_each_safe() to traverse this list. This fixes the bugs
in sctp_copy_laddrs_xxx() routines where we do copy_to_user() while
holding this lock.
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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To do that, this makes nf_ct_l3proto_try_module_{get,put} compatible
functions. As a result we can remove '#ifdef' surrounds and direct call of
need_conntrack().
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 4017/1: [Jornada7xx] - Updating Jornada720.c
[ARM] 3992/1: i.MX/MX1 CPU Frequency scaling support
[ARM] Provide a method to alter the control register
[ARM] 4016/1: prefetch macro is wrong wrt gcc's "delete-null-pointer-checks"
[ARM] Remove empty fixup function
[ARM] 4014/1: include drivers/hid/Kconfig
[ARM] 4013/1: clocksource driver for netx
[ARM] 4012/1: Clocksource for pxa
[ARM] Clean up ioremap code
[ARM] Unuse another Linux PTE bit
[ARM] Clean up KERNEL_RAM_ADDR
[ARM] Add sys_*at syscalls
[ARM] 4004/1: S3C24XX: UDC remove implict addition of VA to regs
[ARM] Formalise the ARMv6 processor name string
[ARM] Handle HWCAP_VFP in VFP support code
[ARM] 4011/1: AT91SAM9260: Fix compilation with NAND driver
[ARM] 4010/1: AT91SAM9260-EK board: Prepare for MACB Ethernet support
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master.kernel.org:/home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of master.kernel.org:/home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] Move sg_dma_{len,address} from pci.h to scatterlist.h
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platform_device_add_data() makes a copy of the data that is given to it,
and thus the parameter can be const. This removes a warning when data
from get_property() on powerpc is handed to platform_device_add_data(),
as get_property() returns a const pointer.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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IA64 is in a tiny minority providing these defines in pci.h.
Almost everyone else has them in scatterlist.h
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Support to change MX1 CPU frequency at runtime.
Tested on PiKRON's PiMX1 board and seems to be fully
stable up to 200 MHz end even as low as 8 MHz.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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i.MX needs to tweak the control register to support CPU frequency
scaling. Rather than have folk blindly try and change the control
register by writing to it and then wondering why it doesn't work,
provide a method (which is safe for UP only, and therefore only
available for UP) to achieve this.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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optimization
The gcc manual says:
|`-fdelete-null-pointer-checks'
| Use global dataflow analysis to identify and eliminate useless
| checks for null pointers. The compiler assumes that dereferencing
| a null pointer would have halted the program. If a pointer is
| checked after it has already been dereferenced, it cannot be null.
| Enabled at levels `-O2', `-O3', `-Os'.
Now the problem can be seen with this test case:
#include <linux/prefetch.h>
extern void bar(char *x);
void foo(char *x)
{
prefetch(x);
if (x)
bar(x);
}
Because the constraint to the inline asm used in the prefetch() macro is
a memory operand, gcc assumes that the asm code does dereference the
pointer and the delete-null-pointer-checks optimization kicks in.
Inspection of generated assembly for the above example shows that bar()
is indeed called unconditionally without any test on the value of x.
Of course in the prefetch case there is no real dereference and it
cannot be assumed that a null pointer would have been caught at that
point. This causes kernel oopses with constructs like
hlist_for_each_entry() where the list's 'next' content is prefetched
before the pointer is tested against NULL, and only when gcc feels like
applying this optimization which doesn't happen all the time with more
complex code.
It appears that the way to prevent delete-null-pointer-checks
optimization to occur in this case is to make prefetch() into a static
inline function instead of a macro. At least this is what is done on
x86_64 where a similar inline asm memory operand is used (I presume they
would have seen the same problem if it didn't work) and resulting code
for the above example confirms that.
An alternative would consist of replacing the memory operand by a
register operand containing the pointer, and use the addressing mode
explicitly in the asm template. But that would be less optimal than an
offsettable memory reference.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Oops, sorry about that.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Virtually index, physically tagged cache architectures can get away
without cache flushing when forking. This patch adds a new cache
flushing function flush_cache_dup_mm(struct mm_struct *) which for the
moment I've implemented to do the same thing on all architectures
except on MIPS where it's a no-op.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Provide a custom copy_user_highpage() to deal with aliasing issues on
MIPS. It uses kmap_coherent() to map an user page for kernel with same
color. Rewrite copy_to_user_page() and copy_from_user_page() with the
new interfaces to avoid extra cache flushing.
The main part of this patch was originally written by Ralf Baechle;
Atushi Nemoto did the the debugging.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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To allow a more effective copy_user_highpage() on certain architectures,
a vma argument is added to the function and cow_user_page() allowing
the implementation of these functions to check for the VM_EXEC bit.
The main part of this patch was originally written by Ralf Baechle;
Atushi Nemoto did the the debugging.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Problem:
1. There is a process containing two thread (T1 and T2). The
thread T1 calls fork(). Then dup_mmap() function called on T1 context.
static inline int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
...
flush_cache_mm(current->mm);
... /* A */
(write-protect all Copy-On-Write pages)
... /* B */
flush_tlb_mm(current->mm);
...
2. When preemption happens between A and B (or on SMP kernel), the
thread T2 can run and modify data on COW pages without page fault
(modified data will stay in cache).
3. Some time after fork() completed, the thread T2 may cause a page
fault by write-protect on a COW page.
4. Then data of the COW page will be copied to newly allocated
physical page (copy_cow_page()). It reads data via kernel mapping.
The kernel mapping can have different 'color' with user space
mapping of the thread T2 (dcache aliasing). Therefore
copy_cow_page() will copy stale data. Then the modified data in
cache will be lost.
In order to allow architecture code to deal with this problem allow
architecture code to override copy_user_highpage() by defining
__HAVE_ARCH_COPY_USER_HIGHPAGE in <asm/page.h>.
The main part of this patch was originally written by Ralf Baechle;
Atushi Nemoto did the the debugging.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
hwmon: Add MAINTAINERS entry for new ams driver
hwmon: New AMS hardware monitoring driver
hwmon/w83793: Add documentation and maintainer
hwmon: New Winbond W83793 hardware monitoring driver
hwmon: Update Rudolf Marek's e-mail address
hwmon/f71805f: Fix the device address decoding
hwmon/f71805f: Always create all fan inputs
hwmon/f71805f: Add support for the Fintek F71872F/FG chip
hwmon: New PC87427 hardware monitoring driver
hwmon/it87: Remove the SMBus interface support
hwmon/hdaps: Update the list of supported devices
hwmon/hdaps: Move the DMI detection data to .data
hwmon/pc87360: Autodetect the VRM version
hwmon/f71805f: Document the fan control features
hwmon/f71805f: Add support for "speed mode" fan speed control
hwmon/f71805f: Support DC fan speed control mode
hwmon/f71805f: Let the user adjust the PWM base frequency
hwmon/f71805f: Add manual fan speed control
hwmon/f71805f: Store the fan control registers
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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>
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Modify the sstfb (Voodoo1/2) driver:
- fix a memleak when removing the sstfb module
- fix sstfb to use the fbdev default videomode database
- add module option "mode_option" to set initial screen mode
- add sysfs-interface to turn VGA-passthrough on/off via
/sys/class/graphics/fbX/vgapass
- remove old debug functions from ioctl interface
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Acked-By: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Remove references to non-existent fbmon_valid_timings()
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Define an op descriptor struct, use it to simplify nfsd4_proc_compound().
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Tuck away the replay_owner in the cstate while we're at it.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Pass the saved and current filehandles together into all the nfsd4 compound
operations.
I want a unified interface to these operations so we can just call them by
pointer and throw out the huge switch statement.
Also I'll eventually want a structure like this--that holds the state used
during compound processing--for deferral.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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A comment here incorrectly states that "slack_space" is measured in words, not
bytes. Remove the comment, and adjust a variable name and a few comments to
clarify the situation.
This is pure cleanup; there should be no change in functionality.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driver has:
- already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
- is still marked as BROKEN.
Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.
But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still
present in the older kernel releases.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch converts the tracking of the user space watchdog process from using
a pid_t to use struct pid. This makes us safe from pid wrap around issues and
prepares the way for the pid namespace.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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smbfs keeps track of the user space server process in conn_pid. This converts
that track to use a struct pid instead of pid_t. This keeps us safe from pid
wrap around issues and prepares the way for the pid namespace.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Currently this driver tracks user space clients it should send signals to. In
the presenct of file descriptor passing this is appears susceptible to
confusion from pid wrap around issues.
Replacing this with a struct pid prevents us from getting confused, and
prepares for a pid namespace implementation.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Annotated, all places switched to keeping status net-endian.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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All kcalloc() calls of the form "kcalloc(1,...)" are converted to the
equivalent kzalloc() calls, and a few kcalloc() calls with the incorrect
ordering of the first two arguments are fixed.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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When we print an assert due to scheduling-in-atomic bugs, and if lockdep
is enabled, then the IRQ tracing information of lockdep can be printed
to pinpoint the code location that disabled interrupts. This saved me
quite a bit of debugging time in cases where the backtrace did not
identify the irq-disabling site well enough.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Most distributions enable sysrq support but set it to 0 by default. Add a
sysrq_always_enabled boot option to always-enable sysrq keys. Useful for
debugging - without having to modify the disribution's config files (which
might not be possible if the kernel is on a live CD, etc.).
Also, while at it, clean up the sysrq interfaces.
[bunk@stusta.de: make sysrq_always_enabled_setup() static]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Implement block device specific .direct_IO method instead of going through
generic direct_io_worker for block device.
direct_io_worker() is fairly complex because it needs to handle O_DIRECT on
file system, where it needs to perform block allocation, hole detection,
extents file on write, and tons of other corner cases. The end result is
that it takes tons of CPU time to submit an I/O.
For block device, the block allocation is much simpler and a tight triple
loop can be written to iterate each iovec and each page within the iovec in
order to construct/prepare bio structure and then subsequently submit it to
the block layer. This significantly speeds up O_D on block device.
[akpm@osdl.org: small speedup]
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add "relatime" (relative atime) support. Relative atime only updates the
atime if the previous atime is older than the mtime or ctime. Like
noatime, but useful for applications like mutt that need to know when a
file has been read since it was last modified.
A corresponding patch against mount(8) is available at
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mount-relative-atime.txt
Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The kernel termios (ktermios) changes were somehow missed for Xtensa. This
patch adds the ktermios structure and also includes some minor file name
fix that was missed in the syscall patch.
Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Currently, to tell a task that it should go to the refrigerator, we set the
PF_FREEZE flag for it and send a fake signal to it. Unfortunately there
are two SMP-related problems with this approach. First, a task running on
another CPU may be updating its flags while the freezer attempts to set
PF_FREEZE for it and this may leave the task's flags in an inconsistent
state. Second, there is a potential race between freeze_process() and
refrigerator() in which freeze_process() running on one CPU is reading a
task's PF_FREEZE flag while refrigerator() running on another CPU has just
set PF_FROZEN for the same task and attempts to reset PF_FREEZE for it. If
the refrigerator wins the race, freeze_process() will state that PF_FREEZE
hasn't been set for the task and will set it unnecessarily, so the task
will go to the refrigerator once again after it's been thawed.
To solve first of these problems we need to stop using PF_FREEZE to tell
tasks that they should go to the refrigerator. Instead, we can introduce a
special TIF_*** flag and use it for this purpose, since it is allowed to
change the other tasks' TIF_*** flags and there are special calls for it.
To avoid the freeze_process()-refrigerator() race we can make
freeze_process() to always check the task's PF_FROZEN flag after it's read
its "freeze" flag. We should also make sure that refrigerator() will
always reset the task's "freeze" flag after it's set PF_FROZEN for it.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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When some objects are allocated by one CPU but freed by another CPU we can
consume lot of cycles doing divides in obj_to_index().
(Typical load on a dual processor machine where network interrupts are
handled by one particular CPU (allocating skbufs), and the other CPU is
running the application (consuming and freeing skbufs))
Here on one production server (dual-core AMD Opteron 285), I noticed this
divide took 1.20 % of CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events in kernel. But Opteron are
quite modern cpus and the divide is much more expensive on oldest
architectures :
On a 200 MHz sparcv9 machine, the division takes 64 cycles instead of 1
cycle for a multiply.
Doing some math, we can use a reciprocal multiplication instead of a divide.
If we want to compute V = (A / B) (A and B being u32 quantities)
we can instead use :
V = ((u64)A * RECIPROCAL(B)) >> 32 ;
where RECIPROCAL(B) is precalculated to ((1LL << 32) + (B - 1)) / B
Note :
I wrote pure C code for clarity. gcc output for i386 is not optimal but
acceptable :
mull 0x14(%ebx)
mov %edx,%eax // part of the >> 32
xor %edx,%edx // useless
mov %eax,(%esp) // could be avoided
mov %edx,0x4(%esp) // useless
mov (%esp),%ebx
[akpm@osdl.org: small cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Elaborate the API for calling cpuset_zone_allowed(), so that users have to
explicitly choose between the two variants:
cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall()
cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall()
Until now, whether or not you got the hardwall flavor depended solely on
whether or not you or'd in the __GFP_HARDWALL gfp flag to the gfp_mask
argument.
If you didn't specify __GFP_HARDWALL, you implicitly got the softwall
version.
Unfortunately, this meant that users would end up with the softwall version
without thinking about it. Since only the softwall version might sleep,
this led to bugs with possible sleeping in interrupt context on more than
one occassion.
The hardwall version requires that the current tasks mems_allowed allows
the node of the specified zone (or that you're in interrupt or that
__GFP_THISNODE is set or that you're on a one cpuset system.)
The softwall version, depending on the gfp_mask, might allow a node if it
was allowed in the nearest enclusing cpuset marked mem_exclusive (which
requires taking the cpuset lock 'callback_mutex' to evaluate.)
This patch removes the cpuset_zone_allowed() call, and forces the caller to
explicitly choose between the hardwall and the softwall case.
If the caller wants the gfp_mask to determine this choice, they should (1)
be sure they can sleep or that __GFP_HARDWALL is set, and (2) invoke the
cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() routine.
This adds another 100 or 200 bytes to the kernel text space, due to the few
lines of nearly duplicate code at the top of both cpuset_zone_allowed_*
routines. It should save a few instructions executed for the calls that
turned into calls of cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall, thanks to not having to
set (before the call) then check (within the call) the __GFP_HARDWALL flag.
For the most critical call, from get_page_from_freelist(), the same
instructions are executed as before -- the old cpuset_zone_allowed()
routine it used to call is the same code as the
cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() routine that it calls now.
Not a perfect win, but seems worth it, to reduce this chance of hitting a
sleeping with irq off complaint again.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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More cleanups for slab.h
1. Remove tabs from weird locations as suggested by Pekka
2. Drop the check for NUMA and SLAB_DEBUG from the fallback section
as suggested by Pekka.
3. Uses static inline for the fallback defs as also suggested by Pekka.
4. Make kmem_ptr_valid take a const * argument.
5. Separate the NUMA fallback definitions from the kmalloc_track fallback
definitions.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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